On my browser, at least, the text is overlapped by the photos.
I’m going to guess that the beetles, sine waves, and leaf illo is a sort of “generic science collage” that accompanies Ley’s science column. Another issue or two from the same year might prove this out.
I remember using a “film club” type system as late as 2002; I was a very late adopter of digital cameras. The place I used gave you a sheet of bar code stickers you stuck on the 35mm film rolls. These had my customer number, so they could auto-address the return envelope. You got rolls of film along with the prints.
