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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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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 …
Read MoreChief Misunderstanding
… from a cursory discussion of Christianity’s sometimes violent development; Mao Zedong is passingly credited with “a mixed legacy.” Assessments of contemporary tech leaders such as Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk neglect a consideration of the deleterious effects of innovation on human beings and the environment. Whether leaders are taking our sheep to feed their
Read MoreHere We Are Again
… influence is more subtle, but perhaps more long-lasting, I suggest. “I can’t measure that sort of impact,” Benedict replies. “I only know that I get feedback from individual readers that can be very moving. The Good Deed was translated into Arabic and released in Egypt a year ago. My publisher in Cairo held …
Read MoreShooting for the Camera
… the teenager he failed to kill in 1975—led to 9/11, and the reverberations persist. Carlos saw that a new techno-wonder, the global satellite TV feed, made terrorism into show biz. The channels of the day were full of masked men performing the unthinkable—the takeover of the Munich Olympics, the kidnapping of …
Read MoreThe Caravaggio Whisperer
… illustration of a light bulb. I dropped a coin in its slot, and the light snapped back on. And so it went. We in the crowd kept feeding the relentless machine, which lit the painting for minutes at a time.
Our group, gathered before the Madonna, was in constant flux. Some people left, others arrived …
Knot in my Back Yard
… the rhetoric about invasives crossing foreign borders often echoes the language used to denounce human immigration. Sometimes, the contentious debates over human and biological migrants overlap and feed upon one another. Invasive cane along the Rio Grande has exacerbated droughts by sucking up groundwater, while simultaneously providing cover for both narcotraffickers and undocumented people crossing …
Read MoreWhat Remains
… I wanted Feather to taste more of the world than the hay left by his owner. A horsewoman I knew said that I wasn’t supposed to feed other people’s horses, but I never saw Feather’s owner, didn’t believe Feather was given much more than a pen. I took him grass every …
Read MoreInto the Wilds
… a chainsaw, but our groceries were flown in every other week by small bush plane. Bicycles were forbidden, but pack horses, which can introduce weeds through their feed, were welcome.
The questions get even knottier when we consider how climate change is leaving its indelible footprint on all lands and waters on Earth. By one …
Fireflies
… about mothers and daughters, as she does every afternoon. My mother is watching, too, although it’s possible she is perceiving a completely different show as the scenes filter through the prism of her illness. She looks up and asks me if I remembered to feed the lions. What lions, I say, my smile …
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