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Nice Monsters
I WONDER IF you’ve been called nice before, that placeholder of a word. “She’s nice”: a whitewash with a certain generic sheen, coats of primer applied a few too many times, announcing its intention to ward off attention or suspicion. Nice people or
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Resurrection Biology
George Church has a beard like God’s.Each whisker contains helices of DNAthat curve like mammoth tusks. Church and his team work to resurrectthe woolly mammoth, or rather, to createan approximation of it—an elephant cousinadapted to the Arctic. The m
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Weather Report
“IT WANTS TO BE WINDY,”Papa would say of Sila, the weather. “It likes to be cold,” he’d say in December when the Monitor heater in Papa and Gram’s home ran nonstop, the temperature at -40 to -50 degrees Fahrenheit for days. Sila is alive, his words t

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