In this edition: ICE fighter, tectonic researcher, prairie preserver, regal grandmother, wild timekeeper.
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Editing Nature To Fix Our Failures
“Gene editing may enable us to prevent a species from ever becoming extinct in the first place. But should we?”
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The Languages Lost To Climate Change
“Climate catastrophes and biodiversity loss are endangering languages across the globe.”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
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Living In A Lucid Dream
“Recent research on lucid dreams suggests that consciousness exists along a spectrum between sleep and waking, between hallucination and revelation, between dreamworlds and reality.”