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A Pandemic Tragedy in Guayaquil

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands March 8, 2022October 19, 2022

In this harrowing read for The New Yorker, Daniel Alarcón paints a grim picture of Guayaquil, Ecuador’s largest city, which endured one of the world’s most lethal outbreaks of COVID-19. In Guayaquil, on any given day before the pandemic, there might have been thirty to fifty people whose deaths had to be accounted for, whose […]

Posted inQuotes

Is the Cure for Cancer Locked in Shrunken Heads from the Amazon?

by Seyward Darby January 5, 2021October 12, 2022

Could shrunken heads from the Amazon hold the key to curing cancer?

Posted inEditor's Pick

Baring the Bones of the Lost Country: The Last Paleontologist in Venezuela

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands February 27, 2019October 19, 2022

In light of recent events in crisis-ridden Venezuela, its last vertebrate paleontologist puts together key pieces of the baffling puzzle that the country has become in the past couple of decades.

Posted inCurrent Events, Essays & Criticism, History, Nonfiction, profile, Science & Nature, Story

Baring the Bones of the Lost Country: The Last Paleontologist in Venezuela

by Zoe Valery February 27, 2019October 19, 2022

In light of recent events in crisis-ridden Venezuela, its last vertebrate paleontologist puts together key pieces of the baffling puzzle that the country has become in the past couple of decades.

Posted inNonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes, Science & Nature

Can the Jaguars’ Unique Biology Help It Survive On Our Over-Populated Planet?

by Aaron Gilbreath May 22, 2018October 19, 2022

By avoiding confrontations with humans, and using water and edge-lands, jaguars might be ideally suited to surviving the modern world.

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