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NYT Equine Thought Experiment

Animal Person

The site was where northern Kazakhstan is now, the culture was called Botai and the date was around 3500 B.C. Perhaps if we never used nonhumans and instead relied on our own ingenuity we would have created modes of transportation better than those we have today. The Botai did not just herd horses for meat.

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We’re Not Racists, So Why Aren’t There More Birders Of Color?

10,000 Birds

What started as me posting a link on my private Facebook page about how much I hate the Transportation Security Administration, quickly turned into a very revealing conversation about race and could be a very large and underlying issue of why we don’t see more people of color in birding or enjoying nature in general.

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