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Weekly Geekery

  • Julia Ostmann
  • July 26, 2016
Boy meets lichen, proves 150 years of science textbooks wrong. Want to improve your social skills? Try fiction, not speed-dating. How wasps gave us Shakespeare. In psychology, American undergrad =…
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Weekly Geekery

  • Lyz Lenz
  • May 10, 2016
If Klingon is a living language then Latin sure as hell isn’t dead. “I think therefore I am,” but for animals. Solving history’s mysteries with poop. The Internet is ruining the…
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The Hermit and the Hawk

  • B.J. Hollars
  • December 8, 2015
As the morning progresses I become less interested in where Zirrer had lived, and more interested in what brought him here to begin with. Why, I wonder, does a man choose to opt out of the world?
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On Birds in the Wild

  • Stephanie Bento
  • August 12, 2015
In a hauntingly poignant review of Helen Macdonald’s lovely H Is for Hawk, the Los Angeles Review of Books’s Dinah Lenney writes about her own experience of loss and the turning…
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Save the Birds: A Rumpus Roundup

  • Ian MacAllen
  • April 13, 2015
Jonathan Franzen is an avid bird lover, as anyone who read Freedom might have guessed. Two weeks ago, Franzen wrote a piece for the New Yorker that, among other things,…
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THE BINS: Cutest

  • Lucas Adams
  • March 12, 2015
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Waved Albatross

  • Anita Felicelli
  • January 28, 2015
How do we make the good thoughts stay? Can we make them stay? It's so hard to keep in mind the slivers of time that change our lives for the better.
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Folk Talk: Rabbit Reduction

  • Shelagh Power-Chopra
  • December 9, 2014
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The Most Terrifying Art Project in the World

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • October 3, 2013
Here’s a totally normal thing that exists: a lake with a pH so far to the base end of the scale that when birds crash-land in it, they not only…
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The Diviner’s Tale

  • John Madera
  • February 22, 2011
Morrow’s supple prose is grounded in lyricism, prose unafraid to give the reader both the forest and the trees. Bradford Morrow’s new novel, a feminist interpretation of fairy-tale tropes, explores…
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Get Off Your Ass and Blow Shit Up

  • Matt McGregor
  • December 2, 2010
The Avian Gospels is a strange, compelling parable about an authoritarian city-state, an underground resistance, and a plague of mysterious birds.
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Morning Coffee

  • Dan Weiss
  • December 16, 2009
Wired looks at the fine art of pulpy vhs box art. A handy Christmas facts info-graphic for you. Scienceray wants to talk to you about the Trogon family of birds.…
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