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  • Preparing the Ground

    I read "Preparing the Ground for a More Perfect Union," by Michelle Holliday (@thrivability). The text of the original piece, published on Thursday, November 12th, 2020, is available here: https://thrivableworld.mn.co/posts/preparing-the-ground-for-a-more-perfect-union

    11 min
  • Saving a Swan

    I read "A Sick Swan Is Saved After a 23-Mile Odyssey by Foot, Car and Subway," by Troy Closson (@Troy_Closson), which originally appeared in the New York Times on November 10th, 2020. The link to the original article is here: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/10/nyregion/swan-jamaica-bay-rescue.html

    7 min
  • Woman the Hunter

    The full title of this piece, written by Science correspondent Ann Gibbons (@evolutionscribe), is "Woman the hunter: Ancient Andean remains challenge old ideas of who speared big game." The text was published on November 4th, 2020, and can be read online at https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/11/woman-hunter-ancient-andean-remains-challenge-old-ideas-who-speared-big-game.

    6 min

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