“Billy Barr has braved the fourth season deep in the Rocky Mountains for more than 50 years, amassing an unrivaled record of climate data.”
Carolyn Wells
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A Year in Reading: Backrooms, Backcountry, and Back Home
From two side of the world—these are the stories shining a light on the overlooked corners often holding the pieces together.
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Homeward Bound: On Pigeon Racing
“They flap their wings as fast as they can until they disappear over the horizon—all heading toward Chicago, all heading home.”
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Investigating a Treetop Baby Boom
“Why a sudden spike in pregnancies in one Madagascan lemur population might actually be a bad sign for the species.”
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All Praise to the Lunch Ladies
“Blessed are the women who watch over America’s children. “
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Confessions of a Private Chef: Foie Gras for Pets, Ecstasy for Pud
“Jack Burke, who cooked for the one per cent, reveals a world where nothing is off the menu.”
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Saving the Venus Flytrap: How One Woman Rallied a Town Around Its Weirdest Attraction
“Despite their outsize hold on popular imagination, Venus flytraps are native to a tiny corner of the globe: the Coastal Plain of the Carolinas.”
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‘America is More Divided Than Ever — But How is it Affecting Our Love Lives? I Spent a Year Dating Conservative Men to Find Out’
“There’s no question that we’re living — and looking for love — in contentious times, where extreme political ideologies have all but divided parts of the dating pool.”
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Reckoning With Belonging in Britain
“Journeys to England’s asylum hotels prompt reflections on what it means when the country you call home may no longer want you.”
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Keira Knightley: ‘I Went Mad. I Just Managed to Hide It’
“She was already a huge Hollywood star at the age of 18. Keira Knightley tells Caitlin Moran how she struggled to cope with the intense scrutiny.”