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Emma Bryce in Anthropocene Magazine: People who follow a diet rich in plants cut their mortality risk by almost a third, while simultaneously slashing the climate impact of their food by
Daniel Kelly at Aeon: It’s not that you don’t care about animal suffering. In other contexts, you actually care quite a bit – you would definitely do something if you
Daryl Sparkes at The Conversation: I don’t think Hollywood knew what to do with Donald Sutherland, who has died at age 88. He was not your classically handsome A-list actor
Osita Nwanevu and Oliver Traldi at Wisdom of Crowds: Dear Osita, You and I both like democracy, and we both want to push back against the theoretical challenges it’s faced
left my phone unlockedon the taxi’s back seat,won’t be the last time called it a few timesfinally, the driver picked up he had a fare immediately after mine,and was now headed
Liz Wolfe at Reason Roundup: “The Commandments do not confine themselves to arguably secular matters, such as honoring one’s parents, killing or murder, adultery, stealing, false witness, and covetousness,” wrote
Razib Khan at Razib Khan’s Unsupervised Learning: J. P. Mallory, discusses his reaction to the recent preprint The Genetic Origin of the Indo-Europeans. Mallory is the author of In Search
Shared by Arif Mirza, Toronto: NASA has classified Sansevieria–now called Snake plant–as an air purifier due to its ability to remove toxic compounds such as benzene, formaldehyde, trichloroethylene, xylene and
The wine-dark pain spills over, in my bed alone.In nighttime stillness is my heart beset alone. Why did you make me this way, why did you make me?O God, why
Josie Glausiusz in Nature: Cheese fungus, head lice, human sperm, a bee eye, a microplastic bobble: scientific photographer Steve Gschmeissner has imaged them all under the probing lens of a scanning
Continue readingTiny Beauty: How I Make Scientific Art From Behind the Microscope
By Freda Kreier at The New York Times: In the spring of 1967, workers building a small airport behind Chichén Itzá, the ancient Maya city in Mexico, ran into a
Continue readingAncient Genomes Reveal Which Children the Maya Selected For Sacrifice
Nick Gillespie at Reason: Today’s guest is John Mackey, the co-founder and former CEO of Whole Foods, who just released his memoir, The Whole Story: Adventures in Love, Life, and
Continue readingWhole Foods’ John Mackey: We Must Change How We Think About Capitalism