Every year, vehicles on Brazil’s ever-expending road network hit over 400 million Brazilian animals, causing series declines in some species — and Brazil isn’t the only country expanding its infrastructure.
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The Function and Language of Ancient Sexual Texts
A fascinating look at so-called obscenity, then and now.
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The Push to Make Fake Butter Cool (Again)
A beyond-milk, animal-free, maybe even avocado-based pitch for “plant butter,” starring Queer Eye‘s Antoni Porowski.
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The Fracking Lottery
“When I moved to Billtown, I worried most about whether fracking tainted groundwater. By the time I left the area, my biggest concern was whether the liberty granted to citizens to lease their land, or to otherwise act in ways that limits others’ access to environmental goods, taints democracy.”
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How A Nonagenarian Insists We Can Avoid The Age of Loneliness
“He frames what we don’t know about our planet and what lives on it as a thrilling mystery, an opportunity to learn rather than a problem too daunting or, worse, too late to confront.”
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A Second Chance
“Twelve years ago, 47 dogs were rescued from Michael Vick’s dogfighting operation and allowed to live. They’ve enriched the lives of countless humans and altered the course of animal welfare.”
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Seagulls Who Eat People Food Poop People Food on Protected Lands
Fast food is killing the human world. Now it could be killing California gulls’ protected island habitat.
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Doctors Without Patients: The Eritrean Physicians Stuck in American Licensing Limbo
“What was the whole point of your training if you cannot do something, even in a pandemic?”
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The Octopus’ Branding Makeover: From Devil-Fish to Brilliant Invertebrate
“Each arm, with its own brain inside, moves completely independent of the others. So much so that arms have been known to steal food from each other.”
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Why humans have evolved to drink milk
Humans didn’t start out being able to digest animal milk – but now many populations do. Why has evolution favored tolerating dairy?
