“Most new diseases have their origins in animals. So why aren’t we paying more attention to their health?”
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The Very Hungry Urchins
“They’re very simple animals, but they’re very effective at what they do.”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Featuring stories by Michael Lewis, Patricia Wen, Ted Chiang, Katie Thornton, and Sarah Smarsh.
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The Feud Tearing the Paleontology World Apart
“Two paleontologists have turned on each other, each claiming to have found new evidence about the worst day on Earth.”
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The Waning Reign of the Wetland Architect We Barely Know (Hint: Not a Beaver)
“The sight of a whiskered nose held just above the water, a small bow wave preceding it, never ceased to lift my spirits.”
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The Mad Scientist and the Killer Whales
“Since 2020, orcas off the coast of Spain and Portugal have sunk several sailing vessels and destroyed hundreds of others. Renaud de Stephanis won’t rest until he stops them.”
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Bats of the Midnight Sun
“Reimer has spent over a decade specializing in chiropterology, the study of the species with “’winged hands.’”
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The Heiress at Harvard Who Helped Revolutionize Murder Investigations—and the Case She Couldn’t Forget
“Frances Glessner Lee didn’t want to be known as a ‘rich woman who didn’t have enough to do.’ In her 60s, she became a pioneer of forensic science.”
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From Silicon to Slime
“Claire L. Evans on imagination as a form of computation, and the endless entanglement of our biological reality.”
