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The Emotional Intelligence of Orcas

The Emotional Intelligence of Orcas

by: Ashleigh Papp The killer whale or orca, also known as Orcinus orca, carries a reputation that can send chills down the spine. The sight of their majestic dark bodies accented with white gliding through the water creates a air of mystery. And, the knowledge of their organized hunting strategies observed in the wild can trigger an image of fear. But, these marine mammals also can ignite a sense of excitement and wonder. Admittedly, the study of just about every…

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Author to Author: Melissa Duclos and Peg Alford Pursell

Author to Author: Melissa Duclos and Peg Alford Pursell

Each Thursday, we turn the reins over to authors who have published a book within the last year or who have one forthcoming in the next year in order to interview one another. But, there’s a twist—they don’t know each other ahead of time. This interview took place between Peg Alford Pursell and Melissa Duclos over the course of about two weeks via a digital document that they used to ask and answer questions. As authors, they found much common…

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Tiger, Tiger Burning Bright: Inside the Dark World of the Illegal Wildlife Trade with Rachel Nuwer

Tiger, Tiger Burning Bright: Inside the Dark World of the Illegal Wildlife Trade with Rachel Nuwer

by: Madhvi Ramani In 2010, when Rachel Love Nuwer was conducting scientific research about how people living near two national parks in Vietnam used the forest, her attention was drawn to the subject of illegal poaching. What followed was a years-long investigation that took her from the waterlogged jungle at Vietnam’s southern tip to a traditional Chinese market in Guangzhou to a South African prison and a reptile zoo in Japan. Poached: Inside the Dark World of Wildlife Trafficking is…

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Author to Author: Micah Perks and Michelle Bailat-Jones

Author to Author: Micah Perks and Michelle Bailat-Jones

What happens when two authors who have never met agree to interview each other? Join us as we launch our brand new author to author interview series in which some of today’s finest writers discuss the writing life, the craft of writing and their latest works. We’re thrilled to feature Micah Perks and Michelle Jones-Bailat in conversation. Micah Perks: What languages do you translate? Michelle Jones-Bailat: I translate from French into English, and I have done work from Japanese into…

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The Gold T: A Father’s Gift

The Gold T: A Father’s Gift

by: Trish Cantillon By the fall of 1980, my dad had died of cirrhosis of the liver. In the last year of his life I felt angry, sad and guilty. I did whatever I could to avoid seeing him and barely tolerated him when I did. He was bottoming out in his disease and at only fifteen, I was ill-equipped to manage those complicated feelings. His death brought relief and I was immediately grateful to be out from under the…

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