"Ancient Poems Reveal the History of the Endangered Yangtze Porpoise"
"Zhang and her colleagues turned to ancient poems because official records rarely mentioned [Yangtze finless porpoises]. Using an online database of Chinese literature, 'we searched for various historical names of the Yangtze finless porpoise across dynastic poetry, manually verifying each mention to ensure it referred to the porpoise and not other animals,' Zhang says."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Siddhartha Menon on Drafts
"'Captivity' is true to the surface facts that it describes. Through the encounter with an unheeding bird, it is about the dichotomy between a full experiencing of something and the urge to record it by means of a camera—or, for that matter, to pin it down in real time through words, through labels. Does the capturing of experience come in the way of experience? Does the holding of something in posterity, or the attempt to do so, interfere with experiencing it in the quick? These are not rhetorical questions." |
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