Kristen French

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    Thar Be Monsters

    The art of unseen creatures and the dawn of science

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    This Plaintive Song Is From a Land Without Lullabies

    A rare tribe lacks music for dancing or soothing their young ones

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    The Deadly Story of a Life-Giving Element

    Author Jack Lohmann on his new book about phosphorus

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    This Ocean Wave Has Rights  

    The true meaning of legal protection for nature.

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    The Strange Rise of Daydreaming

    Why people become addicted to fantasy lives.

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    When Bacteria Are Beautiful

    Making art out of an invisible world that shapes human health and disease.

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    5 Myths About Love and Desire

    Love languages aren’t a thing, and sex every day is probably overdoing it.

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    Why We Reject New Ideas

    What Shark Tank pitches, Sundance films, and unusual sandwiches show us about our choices.

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    Talk About the Passion

    Scientists on the art that has inspired them. Artists on the science that has inspired them.

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    Pocket Forests Are Coming to Town

    Can tiny forests deliver on big environmental problems?