“By analyzing reports of people who got off-track, researchers are advancing the science of ‘lost person behavior.'”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Showcasing stories from Fatima Syed, Jack Crosbie, Charlotte Higgins, Sonya Bennett-Brandt, and Camille Bromley.
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Ant Geopolitics
“Over the past four centuries quadrillions of ants have created a strange and turbulent global society that shadows our own.”
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Flat Places
“Whenever I stand in a flat landscape, I feel myself becoming weightless, taken out of my childhood full of painful nothing.”
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‘Bees are Sentient’: Inside the Stunning Brains of Nature’s Hardest Workers
“‘Fringe’ research suggests the insects that are essential to agriculture have emotions, dreams and even PTSD, raising complex ethical questions.”
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Most People Are Disgusted by These Animals. These New Yorkers Are Filling Their Homes with Them.
“In NYC, many wildlife rehabbers see pests as part of a thriving urban ecosystem.”
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In the South, Developers Enter a Complicated Relationship with Endangered Bats
“Today, white-nose syndrome is wiping out an entire branch of the bat family tree in America’s Southeastern forests.”
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The Vegan Hunter
“A bad breakup and a love for nature inspire a taste for eating meat.”
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Where Are All The Caribou?
“For millennia Indigenous communities have relied on the far north’s caribou herds for sustenance. But as the herds dwindle, the future becomes difficult to predict.”
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Encountering the High Arctic
“This land has the ability to shape-shift, defying depth perception, and it occurs to me now that I will be very hard to spot from the air, if it comes to that.”
