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  Histiophryne psychedelica, the weirdest fish ever . . . more  Power boobs from the Paleolithic . . . more To win back Hispanic voters, silver-haired white male Republican politicians will have to do more than just have photo-shoots of themselves “eating tacos alongside … Continue reading

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Poem for a Weekend: Elizabeth Bishop’s “The Fish”

I caught a tremendous fish and held him beside the boat half out of water, with my hook fast in a corner of his mouth. He didn’t fight. He hadn’t fought at all. He hung a grunting weight, battered and … Continue reading

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Is that TIT-taalik or Tiktaalik? Fish Teeth Became Human Breasts! Paleontologist Neil Shubin Talks to Stephen Colbert About the Curious Contingencies of Evolution

For Stephen Colbert’s discussion of Tiktaalik with Neil Shubin, see here.

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Yin-Yang Fish (A Poem by Santi Tafarella)

  The highest cloud blocking the sun   moved   and the clouds below it, and the boat sails,   and the capping waves and gulls   broke   into brilliant white   even as you, barefoot   on the … Continue reading

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“Makes Ya’ Think, Doesn’t It?”: Aquarium Fish Have an Existential Moment (From Monty Python’s “The Meaning of Life”)

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“Yin-Yang Fish”: A Poem by Santi Tafarella

  The highest cloud blocking the sun   moved   and the clouds below it, and the boat sails,   and the capping waves and gulls   broke   into brilliant white   even as you, barefoot   on the … Continue reading

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“Witness”: A Poem by Santi Tafarella

  I’ve been told that the shore’s scattered jellyfish   are remnant tissue   from the placenta of creation   that millions of years ago out of its belly   the ocean heaved forth the mountains and the valleys—   … Continue reading

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