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[View in browser]( | [Become a member]( EDITORSâ CHOICE August 21, 2022 Did a friend forward this? [Subscribe here](. Good Morning! This Sunday, read some new and popular stories from Nautilusâand be sure to check out this weekâs Behind the Scenes below [DROP IN TO NAUTILUS]( [ENVIRONMENT]( [Two Distinguished Scientists on How to Rescue Humanity]( The Anthropocene demands a massive realignment of priorities. BY CHARLES F. KENNEL & MARTIN REES Our Earth has existed for 45 million centuries; and humans for a few thousand. [Continue reading â]( Experience the endless possibilities and deep human connections that science offers [SUBSCRIBE TODAY]( [Invest in Smart Home Security]( Better protection starts with smarter prevention. You can stay worry-free with a [Vivint Smart Home Security System]( that is engineered to intelligently identify and scare away real threats. [Get Peace of Mind Today]( [BEHIND THE SCENES]( [Ben Goldfarb Takes Us Behind âHumans Are Overzealous Whale Morticiansâ]( âNobody wants a big stinky whale on Miami Beach,â says Ben Goldfarb. And fair enough. But whatâs the cost of whisking away that big blob of blubber, fat, muscle, and bone from our shorelines? âIn removing that carcass from the environment,â Goldfarb says, âyouâre also removing this really valuable ecological load of food for all kinds of scavengers.â Goldfarb, an environmental journalist, has been busying himself these last several years researching and writing about road ecology. Itâs about all the ways in which our infrastructure shapes the natural world, and what we can do to mitigate those impacts, to make our infrastructure a little less destructive. âIâve been thinking a lot lately about dead animals and what we do with them,â he said. His [recent story]( in Nautilus about how we hastily dispose of dead whales, ignoring the ecological significance of their carcasses, was something of a preview of whatâs to come in his upcoming book for W.W. Norton & Company. He joked, âItâll be out sometime in the 21st century.â Realistically, itâs on track to publish in fall 2023 or winter 2024. [In our conversation](, Goldfarb talked about what drew him to the subject of road ecology. âIâm just fascinated by this global, both marine and terrestrial, movement to reconceive of carcasses as resources, rather than blights on the landscape,â he said. He mentioned how, in reporting his story, he found out that a lot of whales and dolphins wash up alive, beyond saving, and end up being euthanized, often with pentobarbital, a toxin that can remain active in a carcass for a long time. âThereâs one horrible story in particular of a dog in Australia who dug up a chunk of humpback whale blubber from a whale that had been euthanized, ate the blubber, and fell into a three-week-long coma,â Goldfarb said. âThe dog ultimately survived.â [Watch here](. âBrian Gallagher, associate editor [âDenying the urgency of climate change is the ultimate tragedy of the commons.â]( [Two eminent scientists on the priorities humanity must realign to save itself.]( [EVOLUTION]( [Another Path to Intelligence]( BY JAMES BRIDLE It turns out there are many ways of âdoingâ intelligence, and this is evident even in the apes and monkeys who perch close to us on the evolutionary tree.
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