An experiment in 2005 asked forty-eight university students to...

An experiment in 2005 asked forty-eight university students to look at
images of wild nature as well as images of ‘managed nature.’ Prior to
looking at the images, the researchers reminded the members of one group
that someday they would die.

The third installment of my five-part series on November, this time on color and fear and the stages of alchemy, is up on the Paris Review.

Have a look at the whole series here.

[The Return of the Herd, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1565]