whales
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Women Who Run with the Wolves (and Pandas and Gorillas and Whales)
It’s a trend you may never have noticed, but it exists: “women—attractive, single, childless women—have long been coupled with exotic animals. Gentle women and wild animals are linked in myth and fable, fashion photography and pornography, pulp art and fine…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The important questions: what can we learn about a whale from its earwax? Can we just talk about this US spy rocket logo for a second? In 1938, a scientist recorded the heartbeat of a man being executed. Medieval diseased…
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The Hunt for the Loneliest Whale
There’s a whale somewhere in the Pacific Ocean, an increasingly famous whale, who sings at 52 hertz instead of the usual 15–20 hertz. Judging by the recordings we have, he seems to be a male, and he seems to be…