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Reptile Gossip
… the seeds at some distance from the point of consumption, “our review strongly suggests that crocodilians function as effective agents of seed dispersal,” the authors write.
• They feed bees and butterflies with their tears. In an extraordinary observation, aquatic ecologist Carlos de la Rosa, director of the La Selva Biological Station for the Organization for …
How Many Words Does a Wordsmith Make?
… might not expect?
The question has been on my mind thanks to a recent analysis of the “largest vocabularies” in hip-hop that has monopolized my Facebook feed for the better part of a week now. Data scientist Matt Daniels grabbed 35,000-word lyric samples from a number of rappers, tallying up the number …
Leave Your Laptop Home
As I write this post on my laptop, I am doing a few other things, too: watching videos from my Facebook feed, Gchatting a friend, confirming on Twitter that “Gchat” can be a transitive verb, and using a clever infographic to revisit, for no purpose whatsoever, how much rent I should’ve paid. With great …
Read MoreThe Milk of Human (Un)kindness
… intransigent principal—would be respected enough to warrant a personalized response. Even if the policy has to stand, there ought to be an acknowledgment by this top administrator that the teacher has reason to be upset.
The sense of being trapped in a system that won’t heed feedback—that’s what J. feels …
Loving Animals to Death
… for a philosophical investigation into the principle of killing animals for food we do not need. For an earnest movement aiming to radically alter the way we feed ourselves, this self-exam is long overdue. From Jeremy Bentham’s famous moral distinction—“The question is not ‘Can [animals] reason,’ nor ‘Can they talk,’ but ‘Can …
Read MoreOn Loneliness
… Church of England apostasy. Even the Quakers are anthropocentric, whereas crows as well as humans holler a greeting to me when I’m out walking because I feed instead of shoot at them.
Selfishness, self-involvement, disengagement frequently bring on loneliness. Are you the type that begs off weddings and funerals inconveniently located out of …
The Making of PoBiz Farm
… black and suckled / in small audible gulps from his warm mother.” Now “I stood with him feeding / him apple slices slowly slowly making them last … when [the vet] shot the syringe full of pentobarb into his vein … He dropped / with a thud, a slain king … the taste of apple wasting in his mouth.”
Only …
The Presence of Absence
… little one,” he said, his soft, steady voice soothing her and us. But in the tumult of the hurricane, the funeral, and the relatives, we forgot to feed her and she died. We had called her Margalo, after a bird in one of our favorite children’s stories. In Stuart Little, Margalo also had to …
Read MoreIn Memory of a Great Teacher
… he would always respond.
Glenn’s players achieved a special status at the club where he worked. They fairly lived there, practicing the same strokes for hours, feeding each other balls, analyzing each other’s play. They became Glenn’s assistants and often took over aspects of his job. They opened and closed the clubhouse …
Final Resting Place
… the cemetery in the fir trees near the mountain, for example, or at the cabin at the beach. For one thing our vacuum does not work well, and for another the dog scours the floor meticulously, and for all that my mother-in-law really liked the dog—she would feed him savories under the
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