Brandon Keim

It’s official:

MEET THE NEIGHBORS has hatched!

It’s about the science of animal intelligence, how we think about nature, and what it means to understand wild animals as fellow persons.

Available now at your favorite bookseller.

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A challenge to everyone who uses the term "not in my backyard" to describe the motivations of people resisting a development they don't want: use "not in my community" instead.

It's a hell of a lot truer to the reality of so-called NIMBYism ... and a lot harder to disparage.

"Conversations about gain-of-function research have become so politicized that calls for greater oversight are painted as attacks on science itself. But nothing would cost science more than another pandemic traced to a laboratory or merely suspected of coming from one." nytimes.com/interactive/20…

"Neither restoring the pre-Trump status quo, nor further attempts to reconcile the human rights of patients with the property claims of investors will suffice. Reforms must, instead, decommercialise insurance and care provision."

— @awgaffney et al. in @TheLancet

As best as I can tell, not one obituary or article on Goodall's passing has mentioned the fact that she didn't eat animals. It's a detail worth knowing.