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When the newspapers were full of alarms about Iran possibly developing a nuclear bomb, Kurt sent me a copy of a very short letter he wrote to The New York Times: “I know of only one nation that has dropped nuclear bombs on innocent people.

— Howard Zinn on Kurt Vonnegut (via unquietmindofamy)

(Source: weareoneearth)

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rhamphotheca: Protein Rich Diet Helps Gorillas Keep Lean by Sindya N. Bhanoo Gorillas don’t seem to be facing the obesity epidemic that humans in modern society are.  That’s because our primate brethren follow a lean diet with protein concentrations similar to the American Heart Association’s recommendations for humans, says Jessica Rothman, an anthropologist at Hunter College of the City University of New York. Dr. Rothman and her colleagues studied mountain gorillas in Uganda and found that they eat a protein-rich diet, supplemented with fruits. Protein makes up about 17 percent of their total energy intake, close to the 15 percent protein intake the heart association recommends for people… (read more: NY Times)

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Protein Rich Diet Helps Gorillas Keep Lean

by Sindya N. Bhanoo

Gorillas don’t seem to be facing the obesity epidemic that humans in modern society are.  That’s because our primate brethren follow a lean diet with protein concentrations similar to the American Heart Association’s recommendations for humans, says Jessica Rothman, an anthropologist at Hunter College of the City University of New York.

Dr. Rothman and her colleagues studied mountain gorillas in Uganda and found that they eat a protein-rich diet, supplemented with fruits. Protein makes up about 17 percent of their total energy intake, close to the 15 percent protein intake the heart association recommends for people…

(read more: NY Times)

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kateoplis: A Warm Feeling For the Arctic | NYT To many Americans, Wasilla, Alaska, seems like a very distant corner of the national map. For the photographer Bill Hess, 60, it is just the starting point. He has spent about half his life traveling from his home in Wasilla to the far more remote realms of the North Slope Borough, where the Inupiat people live. He pilots his own bush plane and, once on the ground, travels by snowmobile or dog sled. He is home. “Alaska speaks to me as no other place I have ever been,” Mr. Hess said. “I love Alaska with every piece of flesh and spirit that is me. It speaks most strongly in the communities and camps of its native people, for they have ties to the land, sea and animals — and knowledge of the same — that is possessed by no one else. I can feel that when I am with them. When I am not with them, I miss that feeling.” Above: Ralph Ahkivgak assured a gray whale in Barrow that it would be rescued from the slush ice in which it was temporarily trapped. The Inupiat do nut typically hunt grey whales.

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A Warm Feeling For the Arctic | NYT

To many Americans, Wasilla, Alaska, seems like a very distant corner of the national map. For the photographer Bill Hess, 60, it is just the starting point.

He has spent about half his life traveling from his home in Wasilla to the far more remote realms of the North Slope Borough, where the Inupiat people live. He pilots his own bush plane and, once on the ground, travels by snowmobile or dog sled. He is home.

“Alaska speaks to me as no other place I have ever been,” Mr. Hess said. “I love Alaska with every piece of flesh and spirit that is me. It speaks most strongly in the communities and camps of its native people, for they have ties to the land, sea and animals — and knowledge of the same — that is possessed by no one else. I can feel that when I am with them. When I am not with them, I miss that feeling.”

Above: Ralph Ahkivgak assured a gray whale in Barrow that it would be rescued from the slush ice in which it was temporarily trapped. The Inupiat do nut typically hunt grey whales.

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snowce: Pictures of the Times: A Century of Photography From The New York Times

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Pictures of the Times: A Century of Photography From The New York Times