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Optimizing Meat 2.0
Can Impossible Foods’ meat facsimiles save us from our carnivorous appetites?
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The Ways of a Wandering Spirit
For many of us, road trips are also trips through the self.
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‘Someone Took Care to Get it Right’: The Birds of the Seven Kingdoms
On the delightfully nerdy role of birds and bird calls in Game of Thrones.
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From the Sewer to the Syringe
Biomedical researchers find remedies for antibiotic-resistant infections in grody places.
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Why Can’t California Public Schools Quit Teaching a Eurocentric Version of State History?
Despite decades of effort, activists are still trying to get California public schools to teach an accurate history of the state’s indigenous people and the cruelties of European settlement.
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‘Buried in the Cowboy Way, with His Tail to the Wind’
“There was no chance I was going to ask him to make another winter, but as long as he was hobbling to his golf course and chortling to me each morning, it seemed too early to end his life.”
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Learning About Love from Strangers
There are the marks lovers leave on trees and rocks, and the marks lovers leave on each other.
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Take Two Stem Cell Injections and Don’t Call Me Until After I Cash Your $10,000 Cheque
What don’t these stem cell snake-oil salespeople have? Any science to prove their claims or any scruples about preying on the vulnerable.
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The Vital and Surprising Role of Driftwood
Driftwood provides the necessary habitat and shelter that feeds a raft of marine life all the way up the food chain.