“Monticello was a Black space. People of African descent shaped the entire landscape: how the food tasted, what the place sounded and felt like.”
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The Moral Cost of Cats
Pete Marra, head of the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center, is pushing a controversial conservation idea: that as the single-biggest man-made danger to bird and small mammal populations in the United States, outdoor and feral cat populations should be controlled, either by keeping pets inside, or by euthanasia and sterilize-and-return programs.
Posted inHighlight, Nonfiction, Quotes
Blame It All on Tibbles: The Case for Keeping Fifi Indoors
At Smithsonian Magazine, Rachel E. Gross explores why keeping your pet cat inside is for the birds.
Posted inQuotes, Science & Nature
Who Needs Jurassic Park When We Have Liaoning, China
Liaoning’s wealth of fossils is helping paleontologists better understand dinosaurs’ relationship to birds — and making China a paleontology hot spot, for better or worse.
Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes
Forced to Perform As Aretha Franklin
How soul singer Mary Jane Jones was forced to perform as Aretha Franklin before she took control of her life and career.
Posted inStory
‘Women Created Our Worlds:’ Native Art Reclaims Its Power
There’s a direct line from missing and murdered indigenous women to the repression of Native women’s contributions to art and culture, but those long-silenced voices are now making themselves heard.
Posted inStory
After a Fashion
Trying so hard to set trends for the future, fashion’s institutions can’t stop stumbling over the past (and the present).
Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes, Science & Nature
The Scientist at the Center of a Heated Scientific Feud
When one female scientist’s thirty years of research contradicted the established theory of dinosaur extinction, people started calling her a bitch that should be burned at the stake.
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Fifty Years Ago, Protesters Took on the Miss America Pageant and Electrified the Feminist Movement
In the wake of a sexist email scandal that has led to new management of the Miss America Pageant, Bad Feminist author Roxane Gay reports on 1968 protests by radical feminists against all that the pageant stands for.
Posted inArts & Culture, Current Events, Story
How the Shock Jock Became the Outrage Jock
What’s the difference between Howard Stern and Tucker Carlson? There isn’t really one.
