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Goethe, book reviews, and why you shouldn’t use TripAdvisor. The brother-figures of bear conservation. Barack Obama talks brain-bots and “chasing the unicorn.” Meet your future neighbors: oysters. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and 19th-century fatal fashion.
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Last month a bear ripped into my tent, clenched his teeth onto my upper left arm, just below my shoulder, and would not let go.
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What would you do if you happened to witness a car crash that injured no humans but mortally wounded a black bear? If you’re Jackson Landers, you finish the bear off with a hunting knife (!), skin it (!!), and eat it (!!!): “…once I began running it through the meat grinder, the stuff became a […]
...more“All of the prostitutes are against the reopening of the brothels.” The French sex workers’ union takes a surprising stance. (Well, maybe not that surprising if you think about it.) (via TMN) Now Arizona is going to start targeting illegal immigrant kids from the public schools. Nothing like picking on an eight year old to prove […]
...moreMondays are good days for best ofs and photography (this is a fact, look it up). Here are some birds eye view pictures and some taken through microscopes. 19th Century dust jackets. The moral here is that it is a mistake to teach bears to ice skate. Inside-out horses and fake zebras. It may be […]
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