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Push Doctor/Flickr This one’s for the health nuts. In Genius Foods: Become Smarter, Happier, and More Productive While Protecting Your Brain for Life (Harper Wave 2018), Max Lugavere approaches each…
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Plants are good for us. Of the species we’ve discovered so far, 31,000 can be used for something other than photosynthesis and 18,000 of those have practical, medical applications. Stefano…
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Let’s talk about sloths. Lucy Cooke founded the Sloth Appreciation Society with one thought in mind: Being fast is overrated. Her book The Truth About Animals: Stoned Sloths, Lovelorn Hippos,…
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North Carolina has been and still is a hub for some of the most restrictive and controversial laws in the country, including those favoring the animal ag industry.
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Did you know that cows can express social preferences? For some people, that’s as easy as saying cows have spots. But most of us have to think twice. Rosamund Young…
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During Wyoming's first legal wolf hunting season in 50 years, it cost just $12 to tag a wolf. Today, the wolf roams wild and (not-so) free in Nate Blakeslee’s American…
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The average seafloor is about 12,000 feet below the surface. That’s 90 to 99% of Earth’s livable space, underwater. Diving even deep into the biosphere, Helen Scales’ Eye of the Shoal:…
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Many of us are afraid of bees, but they help to shape our natural world.
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Skeptical Vegan is a salt-of-the-earth story about on how it felt to grow up and one night go vegan.
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