The Care and Feeding of Prince George

Josie Glausiusz is on hiatus and will return next week. This week, we return to one of her previous On Science essays.

Watching Kate and William emerge from St. Mary’s Hospital in London on July 23, 2013, with their little princeling, I couldn’t help feeling moved. The young Duke and Duchess of Cambridge …

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Care and Feeding of Prince George

Watching Kate and William emerge from St. Mary’s Hospital in London on July 23 with their little princeling, I couldn’t help feeling moved. The young Duke and Duchess of Cambridge looked happy, describing themselves, in Kate’s words, as “very emotional … any parent probably sort of knows what this feeling feels like.” Their …

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Fiction, Fakery, and Factory Farming

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All in Your Head

… Like this,” he said, extending an apple in his opened hand to the donkey.
My sons already knew to keep their fingers out of the way when feeding the donkey, but my boyfriend’s daughter was new to this. She watched wide-eyed as the donkey, with quivering velvety lips, took the apple into its …

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My Cousin Manya

… could not take care of so many people, and food was getting scarcer and scarcer. And the last few days, they said they we are going to feed everybody poisoned soup in order to finish everyone off. But whether they were too late to do it, or they did not have the time, whatever the …

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American Horror Story

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Queen of the Night

… narratives; and compelling excerpts from new books. Hosted by Stephanie Bastek and sponsored by the Phi Beta Kappa Society.
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Battle Hymns

… how the war had not merely reunited a divided nation, but had also become “the tide swing of a great historic consciousness” that would aid Americans to “define our own canons of criticism” and yield “incident enough to feed five hundred years of fiction.” And with what might have been an anticipation 30-years …

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Cancer

… he’d tended to the house, she had hurried about, checking on the sheep that she and her husband keep on the family farmstead across the lane, feeding the dogs that guard the flock, then locking the gate behind her while my neighbor locked up the house again. Then they had driven off together. Until …

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A Toothsome Tale

… liveliest voices from literature, the arts, sciences, history, and public affairs; reports on cutting-edge works in progress; long-form narratives; and compelling excerpts from new books. Hosted by Stephanie Bastek and sponsored by the Phi Beta Kappa Society.
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