Did Audre Lorde facilitate people through these types of interactions during the workshops? How did this idea show up with her students coming from different backgrounds? I love this question so much. What makes this observation so beautiful is that it assumes it is ongoing. There’s an ...
"Looking back on it, I'm like, how did we survive?" Five years later, some Canadians are remembering the COVID-19 pandemic as a time of chaos, fear and grief, but also of solidarity and reflection — and raising concerns that the lessons learned from the crisis ...
From the cursorial cheetah to the arboreal clouded leopard, felids present a wide range of locomotory adaptations. Yes, all cats can climb, but some do it better than others: think lion versus margay (yes, they do descend trees head-first). As hypercarnivores, all cats are meat specialists...
But then, after Altamont had been set up and all the people were there, and the violence had begun, and Angels were menacing everybody in sight, the reports started coming in to the Huntington Hotel, and the Stones did not want to complete the gig. Well, they couldn’t do that . ....
Journalists and media outlets from around the world descend on the town every four years to witness the proceedings, hoping to divine some insight that might foreshadow the statewide results that will come into focus less than 24 hours later. ...
Because they both descend from similar branches of the canine family tree, Scottish Deerhounds and Irish Wolfhounds have a number of similarities, but they are also very different breeds, who exhibit a number of unique traits and characteristics. ...
We did the best we could--there are now 15 other clinics operating--but we couldn’t keep up with the need. Yet last month I think my father’s words found their way up north, to McNeil Consumer Healthcare, the maker of Tylenol (泰诺: 一种感冒药). A major grant from McNeil will...
(Did you know we don’t allow cats or dogs on the island? She asked, explaining the problems with cats eating their puffins or dogs disturbing their solitude, Grímsey being proud of its natural world.) “So have you always lived here?”, my mom asked.“No, I’m from Reykjavík. I ...
In 1994 a serious disease killed more than a third of Africa’s Serengeti lions--a thousand animals--a fate that could easily happen to Gir’s cats. These lions are especially vulnerable to disease because they descend from as few as a dozen individuals. "If you do a DNA test, Asiatic...
Despite this, rabbits were most commonly associated with Christmas in the medieval period. As such, it’s most likely that the symbol of the rabbit as the ‘Easter Bunny’ did indeed come from Germany. Is Seeing A Rabbit Good Luck?