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Can Plants and Animals Lie?

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By Robin Henig
| MSN Verified
Analyzing animals to better understand Homo sapiens has become a sub-genre in the field of science writing. Sometimes this works well, as when Sabrina Imbler uses a purple octopus, starving to death while incubating her eggs, as a metaphor for disordered eating in How Far the Light Reaches.
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The Devastating Loss of Grandparents among One Million COVID Dead

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By Robin Henig
| Scientific American Verified
Think of the dead grandparents and everything they’ll miss. All the milestones, the middle school graduations and bar mitzvahs and quinceañeras. All the victories, on soccer fields or piano recital halls. All the ordinary shared moments, dancing to “Baby Beluga,” or making banana bread, building extravagant Lego towers, watching The Wizard of Oz and cuddling at the flying monkeys part. And the grandchildren, now bereft and sorrowful—think of everything they’ll miss, too.
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Delta Has Muddled Families’ Decision Making

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By Robin Henig
| The Atlantic Verified
Parents and grandparents constantly rely on their intuition for raising kids. With Delta, I just feel helpless. Early in my grandmotherhood, I almost made a terrible mistake. My ten-month-old granddaughter was home from day care with a fever, so I went over to babysit. Toward the evening, the baby’s fever spiked to a terrifying 106.8. By then my son-in-law was home. My first impulse was to panic, but my granddaughter seemed … well, she seemed okay, somehow, just very hot.
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