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A Day with the Langs

[ad_1] May 1, 2021– For more than twenty years, artists Richard Lang and Judith Selby Lang have been collecting plastic trash dumped on a pristine beach at Point Reyes National Seashore. Their meditative practice, and the art they make with the collected debris, is a little song of hope in the face of the global…

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Believed to Be Solitary, Male Sperm Whales Actually Hang With the Boys–in Friendships That Can Last Years

[ad_1] Will Falcon aka Vitaly Sokol, CC license A Japanese biologist studying the social structure of sperm whales has discovered that the phrase “Children’s Saturday” translates into echolocation. Their research reveals that male sperm whales form strong platonic social bonds among other normally solitary males, shedding light on the evolution of bromance in mammals. Famous…

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Imagine a World Without Prisons

[ad_1] April 30, 2021– Deanna Van Buren designs restorative justice centers that, instead of taking the punitive approach used by a system focused on mass incarceration, treat crime as a breakdown of relationships and justice as a process where all stakeholders come together to repair that gap. “Imagine a world without prisons,” says Van Buren….