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Who Would Kill a Monk Seal?

The Hawaiian monk seal has wiry whiskers and the deep, round eyes of an apologetic child. The animals will eat a variety of fish and shellfish, or turn over rocks for eel and octopus, then haul out…
PUBLISHED: May 8, 2013
LENGTH: 31 minutes (7811 words)
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Bones of Contention

Eric Prokopi, of Gainesville, in the five-thousand-square-foot fossil workshop that he built in his back yard. Photograph by Richard Barnes.
PUBLISHED: Jan. 28, 2013
LENGTH: 41 minutes (10453 words)

Germs Are Us

By the time a child crawls, he is blanketed by an enormous cloud of microorganisms. Helico
PUBLISHED: Oct. 22, 2012
LENGTH: 24 minutes (6146 words)
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The Oiliest Catch

By Richard Conniff The small town of Reedville, Virginia, on the western shore of Chesapeake Bay, is a 1950s, Norman Rockwell sort of place. Bunting hangs from a white picket fence ahead of a holiday…
LENGTH: 18 minutes (4552 words)

The Concrete Jungle

Wild turkeys crossing the intersection of Seaview Avenue and Father Capodanno Boulevard, near the South Beach Psychiatric Center in Staten Island.  (Photo: Jason Fulford) Coyotes are…
PUBLISHED: Sept. 12, 2010
LENGTH: 3 minutes (816 words)

Operation Delirium

At an Army research facility, a soldier given a powerful mind-altering drug said, “I feel like my life is not worth a nickel here.”
PUBLISHED: Dec. 17, 2012
LENGTH: 57 minutes (14306 words)

The New Natural-Gas Rush in the Catskills -- New York Magazine

Through the short span of his career, Glassmire has signed 8,000 acres in all. Adding the Porter properties would increase his tally by nearly 20 percent. He bent to tie his shoe. “I might…
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1073 words)

Attack of the Mutant Pupfish

A Devils Hole pupfish specimen, found dead and taken to a lab. Only 75 of the fish survive.Photo: Jesse Chehak West of Pahrump, Nevada, in a corner of the Mojave Desert a couple thousand feet above…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 19, 2012
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3242 words)
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Hearth Surgery

ABSTRACT: ANNALS OF INVENTION about stovemakers. In the small but fanatical world of stovemakers, Peter Scott is something of a celebrity. For the past seven years, under the auspices of the German…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 21, 2009
LENGTH: 1 minutes (471 words)
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