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Fox squirrels larger, more colorful than grey cousins
The Albany Herald, Ga. via Yahoo News· 1 day agoALBANY — Georgia is home to the largest species of tree squirrel living in North America. The fox squirrel (Sciurus niger) can regularly be seen in southwest Georgia sitting upright scanning ...
North Carolina child says she hears 'monsters' in the wall, turns out to be 50K buzzing bees
Fox News· 3 days agoClass said she called pest control, and later beekeepers, to try to determine how the winged insects...
Vintage Chicago Tribune: Cicada invasion
Chicago Tribune· 2 days agoThree species of periodical cicadas, known as Brood XIII, are expected to emerge this month from their underground habitats. What makes these creatures...
Rachel Chinouriri’s ‘English Soundscape’
SPIN via Yahoo News· 2 days agoMusic nostalgia is a beautifully complicated feeling. And it’s one that Rachel Chinouriri is skilled at harnessing in her music. The London-born...
Going to TEFAF New York? Here are 4 Shows You Can Walk to.
New York Times· 2 days agoTEFAF New York, the European Fine Art Foundation fair, is not short on artworks to keep a visitor’s...
The Beekeeper Who Saved a Major League Baseball Game
The Wall Street Journal· 3 days ago“I’m not the best thrower in the world, but I gave it a shot.” The actual baseball game that followed might have failed to live up to the pregame show,...
Want to ease anxiety? Look to the sky
Las Vegas Review-Journal· 2 days agoIt’s mesmerizing to track vermilion flycatchers as they do what their name suggests — catch insects while deftly flying around in a handsome red suit....
Weekly Student News Quiz: College Protests, School Lunch, Bird Flu
New York Times· 5 days agoHave you been paying attention to current events recently? See how many of these 10 questions you...
History, Fable and the Perfect Jewish Joke Make This a Story for the Ages
New York Times· 7 days ago“Lublin,” a novel by Manya Wilkinson, brings together a quest fable and a dark history with disarming humor. Randy Boyagoda is a novelist and professor of English at the University of Toronto ...
Salt-lick sculpture and hornets’ nests: Windsor animal artists at work
Berkshire Eagle· 6 days agoIn the weeks leading up to one of these gatherings, I find myself up to my eyeballs in imagery — my own and my fellow students’. This is a complicated, fantastic beauty where an undulating exterior hides a tiered architecture of cells on stems.
