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Rumpus Original Fiction: Rhino Girl

  • Taylor Brown
  • June 24, 2016
But these were not men, she realized. They were a cackle of spotted hyena, bright-toothed in the dark, and they were laughing at her.
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Weekly Geekery

  • Julia Ostmann
  • June 21, 2016
Our intimate lives feed the meat grinder of big data. The first casualty of climate change: this adorable rodent. Racial bias in healthcare research, and why it’s dangerous. An exoplanet…
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Strange Waters

  • Kate Schapira
  • November 25, 2015
And every life that moves, or dies, or multiplies will have an effect of some sort on the lives around it, a different effect than the one it had before.
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The Causes of Extinction

  • P.E. Garcia
  • September 11, 2015
What fuels such savagery against human and animal kind? What, but the promise of great profits, the lure of luxury items, fine ivory jewelry and statues, or healing potions, gloves…
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Weekly Geekery

  • Lyz Lenz
  • April 28, 2015
What we need is a kinder, gentler robot. The currency of clicks. Using Google to find a monster. Shedding your own skin. Thinking beyond extinction.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Michael Bazzett

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • November 18, 2014
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Michael Bazzett about his new book, You Must Remember This, the malleability of memory, and humor in poetry.
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Seriously, Though

  • Claire Burgess
  • November 13, 2014
At Salon, Lydia Millet gets serious about sexism, climate change and extinction, and the literary establishment’s dismissal of funny books: “Important” serious books often seem to be picked based on…
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The Rumpus Interview with Annalee Newitz

  • Jeff VanderMeer
  • May 14, 2014
Annalee Newitz, editor-in-chief of io9.com and author of Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive A Mass Extinction, discusses the state of the planet, long-term planning, and the admirable survival instincts of the Lystrosaurus.
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Welcome to the Clone Zone

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • April 17, 2013
Via Longreads, a Carl Zimmer story on his National Geographic blog about bringing lost species back from extinction. Dinosaurs are probably out of the question because their remains are too old to contain usable DNA,…
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