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 Crimson2d
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 Magazine3d
The Poetry of Scientific Translation
Read more poetic translations of scientific research in Creature Needs. Reprinted from Creature Needs: Writers Respond to the ...
Science News4d
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.harvard4d
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.
In 1860, A Feather Was Found In A German Quarry—A Year Later, Darwin’s Theory Of Evolution Soared To Life
Before Darwin’s theory became central to evolutionary biology, it still had gaps that were left to be filled—until a certain ...
Birds-of-paradise are sending secret color signals invisible to human eyes, scientists say
Birds-of-paradise are even colorful in the dark, with feathers and body parts that glow a brilliant yellow-green under ...
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 ...
New Statesman15d
Starmer’s defence spending increase could define his premiership
When will Labour tell the truth about Scotland? Chasing the SNP’s spendthrift politics is an irresponsible strategy for a serious party. By Chris Deerin My comedy moment of the week came courtesy of ...