Camels Don’t Store Water in Their Humps
The story almost everyone learned in school is wrong. What the hump actually does, and what a camel can do without water, is stranger than the myth.
By Maya Ellison
The story almost everyone learned in school is wrong. What the hump actually does, and what a camel can do without water, is stranger than the myth.
By Maya Ellison
Nine countries hold roughly 12,000 warheads between them. Most of what the public knows comes from a handful of researchers counting carefully from the outside.
By James Okoro
One lives in trees and eats bark. The other digs burrows and rattles its tail like a warning bell. They look alike, but they are barely related.
Llamas are camels, more or less. The family started in North America, spread to two continents and left relatives on both sides of the world.
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Cheers promised a city where everybody knows your name. Augustana sang about going where no one does. Both songs might be right.
Asimov, Trollope and Simenon wrote at astonishing rates. Their methods were less about genius than about showing up at the same hour every day.
They do not spit the way people do, the hump is not a water tank, and nobody discovered them in 1967. A guide to the camel stories that refuse to die.
By Maya Ellison
Read the essay“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
Jane Goodall, as quoted by the Jane Goodall Institute
She arrived at Gombe in 1960 with a notebook and binoculars. Over 65 years she changed what science knew about chimpanzees, and what the public believed it could do for them.
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We assume the quiet person in the room is shy and harmless. Sometimes they are bored, sometimes they are thinking, and sometimes they are a ninja.
David Foster Wallace went to a lobster festival for a food magazine and came back with questions about pain and mass tourism. Both still apply.
We have engineered boredom out of childhood, one screen at a time. Researchers suggest that may be a loss, because boredom is often where imagination starts.