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SALMON

The way they live, the food they eat, and the effect on us


THE STORY OF GOSLING SANDHILL

A true but unlikely tale

Story and Photographs by William Rowan


THE EUGENICS MOVEMENT IN RETROSPECT

Despite warnings by biologists and geneticists, eminent individuals and
venerable institutions helped promote a false theory that led to sterilizations
and genocide.


CIVILIZING SOCIAL MEDIA

Strategies for depolarizing political discourse


ENSLAVEMENT AND THE ENVIRONMENT

A case study: eighteenth-century Dominica


 * SALMON
   
   The way they live, the food they eat, and the effect on us


 * THE STORY OF GOSLING SANDHILL
   
   A true but unlikely tale
   
   Story and Photographs by William Rowan


 * THE EUGENICS MOVEMENT IN RETROSPECT
   
   Despite warnings by biologists and geneticists, eminent individuals and
   venerable institutions helped promote a false theory that led to
   sterilizations and genocide.


 * CIVILIZING SOCIAL MEDIA
   
   Strategies for depolarizing political discourse


 * ENSLAVEMENT AND THE ENVIRONMENT
   
   A case study: eighteenth-century Dominica




OXYGENATION STUTTER STEPS

Increasing day length on the early Earth boosted oxygen released by
photosynthetic cyanobacteria.

 * WALLACEA WOMAN
   
   Genomic evidence shows that Denisovans and modern humans may have overlapped
   in Wallacea.

 * CONGO RAINMAKER
   
   Evapotranspiration is the largest source of water vapor in the Congo
   rainforest during the spring rainy season.

 * A DRAGON TALE
   
   Pterosaur with 1-meter-long skull was Australia's largest known flying
   reptile.


SHARKS IN OUR MIDST

Their cultural history, prehistory, social systems, and more.

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 * VORACIOUS EVOLUTION
   
   Discoveries of more complete remains of cartilagenous fishes have shed new
   light on the prehistory of sharks and their relatives.

 * SOCIABLE KILLERS
   
   New studies of the white shark (aka great white) show that its social life
   and hunting strategies are complex

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 * SHARKS: MAN-EATERS AND OTHERS
   
   With suggestions that Americans turn to economic account some of the smaller
   species of the Atlantic Coast





THE INDOOR EXPLORER

Three Singing Mice

 * THE CASE OF THE VANISHING CATERPILLAR
   
   A butterfly larva’s fate depends on who finds it first—its ant friends or ant
   foes.

 * PATAGONIAN OASIS
   
   Even amid the wind-swept desolation of southern Argentine a haven may
   occasionally be found.

 * MYSTERY OF SINGING SANDS
   
   Many desert travelers have been frightened or awed by this amazing phenomenon


54-MILLION-YEAR-OLD SKULL REVEALS SURPRISES ABOUT EARLY EVOLUTION OF PRIMATE
BRAINS

 * FOSSIL DISCOVERIES IN DOWNTOWN SAN DIEGO
   
   A mammoth tusk is discovered during an excavation for a new building

 * EVOLUTION OF THE FIRST FLOWERS
   
   Florida Museum of Natural History Study Provides New Insight.

 * DINOSAUR HUNTING
   
   The badlands of southeastern Utah, home to part of the
   dinosaur-rich layer of rocks called the Morrison Formation



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Salmon

The way they live, the food they eat, and the effect on us

The Story of Gosling Sandhill

A true but unlikely tale

Story and Photographs by William Rowan

Oxygenation Stutter Steps

Increasing day length on the early Earth boosted oxygen released by
photosynthetic cyanobacteria.

Wallacea Woman

Genomic evidence shows that Denisovans and modern humans may have overlapped in
Wallacea.

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THE AMUR RIVER: BETWEEN RUSSIA AND CHINA

By Colin Thubron


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