We’re developing high-tech genetic tools to pour new life into animals lost to human destruction. Deciding how — and whether — to use that power is as complex as the science behind it.
Search results
Posted inStory
Deconstructing Disney: Queer Coding and Masculinity in Pocahontas
Pocahontas may seem like a strange vehicle for discussing our gay villains. But Disney gets inventive when they need to circumvent white people’s historical responsibility for genocidal atrocities — and queerness is a useful scapegoat.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Story
What’s Love Got to Do With It?
“Although the world has made space for more diverse women, we are still expected to fill the role of the one who wants to be loved, to be a mother when perhaps we only ever wanted to paint, to write, to explore the world alone, on our own terms.”
Posted inEditor's Pick
Can the world quench China’s bottomless thirst for milk?
In China, milk represents modernity and progress. But the radical plan to triple the nation’s consumption has serious environmental consequences.
Posted inHighlight, Quote Posts, Quotes
‘I’m Not Saving These Pit Bulls—They Are Saving Me’
Jason Flatt’s animal rescue operation, Friends to the Forlorn, has saved 600 dogs and counting since 2009 and specializes in rescuing pit bills.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Atlanta’s Patron Saint of Pit Bulls
Jason Flatt’s animal rescue operation, Friends to the Forlorn, has saved 600 dogs and counting since 2009 and specializes in rescuing pit bills.
Posted inReading List
Tangled Up in Bob Stories: A Dylan Reading List
Few musicians have generated as much music and as much study as this Nobel Prize winning singer-songwriter. Dylanology will last hundreds of years.
Posted inStory
Children in the Garden: On Life at a 3,100-Mile Race
Another beauty of endurance is that it is happening at all times. It is everywhere we look. To see someone, anyone, in this world is to witness someone engaged in a feat of endurance.
Posted inEditor's Pick
In Brazil, Animals Cross a Road of No Return
Highway BR-262 cuts through Brazil’s Pantanal, the world’s largest freshwater wetland. After studying the road for two decades, biologist Wagner Fischer can say with certainty that it’s one of the world’s deadliest roads for wildlife. “Ecologists are very worried,” Fischer said. “The authorities pretend to be worried.”
Posted inEditor's Pick
A Dog’s Life
“People who have not loved a dog will never experience the most honest, pure and unconditional relationship a human can have. But to love a dog is to sign up for heartbreak.” What would you sacrifice for your pet? When Shawna Richer’s dog, Scout, became paralyzed, she had to make a choice: would she put […]
