Poetry from Daily Life: Word by word, line by line, collecting, stacking, making a rhyme
Indiana author Rebecca Kai Dotlich writes about how a childhood spent collecting lyrics and words sparked her love of poetry.
Conservation focusing on birds of a feather may have mixed results
Conservation strategies are turning back the doomsday clock in threatened Florida-Scrub Jays—but not without caveats, a new ...
When birds lose the ability to fly, their bodies change faster than their feathers, scientists discover
More than 99% of birds can fly. But that still leaves many species that evolved to be flightless, including penguins, ...
The Harvard Crimson3d
Voices in Verse: Vignettes for Black History Month
In honor of Black History Month, The Crimson’s Arts Board reflected on their favorite poems written by Black authors, and ...
How poetry can help us understand mass extinction events
It is widely accepted that we are currently witnessing the start of a sixth mass extinction. Humans are dramatic ecosystem ...
Orion Magazine5d
The Poetry of Scientific Translation
Read more poetic translations of scientific research in Creature Needs. Reprinted from Creature Needs: Writers Respond to the ...
Science News5d
How fish biologists discovered birds of paradise have fluorescent feathers
A survey of museum specimens reveals that more than a dozen species of the birds sport biofluorescence in feathers, skin or even inside their throats.
sir.advancedleadership.harvard5d
The Power of Poet Laureate Ada Limón and Poetry in Parks
ALI Fellow Elliot Davis '22 explores Poet Laureate Ada Limón's groundbreaking project, You Are Here: Poetry in Parks.
The Morning Ritual That Helps Me Resist the Algorithm
Instead of defaulting to the notifications on my phone, poetry has inspired me to begin the day in a different way.
Benedict Cumberbatch on ‘The Thing With Feathers,’ Being an Advocate: Society Has “a Very Easy Time Sidelining” Those in Need
Cumberbatch got candid about grief, toxic masculinity and being an advocate in Berlin for the press conference of Dylan ...
Opinion
Is poetry useless?
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts may have a better right than any other state to call itself “the poetry state.” Celebrated poets from Emily Dickinson and Ralph Waldo Emerson to Elizabeth Bishop and ...
Huffington Post UK14d
24 Must-See Moments You Might Have Missed From This Year's Baftas Ceremony
The Baftas may be known as a slightly more subdued affair than some of its awards season counterparts across the pond, but this year’s ceremony certainly wasn’t without its stand-out moments ...