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C Craig Koshyk is a terrific writer/photographer and author of a book that must be on every dog person's wish list — Pointing Dogs, Volu...

L ast week both Esquire and GQ published big stories on the Zanesville, Ohio zoo massacre. Read both articles, if you have time, but if yo...

The San Andreas Fault runs through Cajon Pass [lower left to upper right] in Southern California. See Lost Lake in the middle of the photo? ...

F rom Language Log : I am sure I have said this before, but here I am saying it again, for the Guardian's editors to hear: you just can...

J essa Gamble had a close and unforgettable encounter along a frozen lake in Canada’s Northwest Territories: read A Dead World at Sunset ov...

"Elephant Skull, African Safari 2009, Botswana, Africa." Photo by godutchbaby on Flickr. I love when I read something and think...

Abass Bangura and Forget. Street clinic in Rokupa, East Freetown, August 2009. Dr. Gudush Jalloh operating on a puppy with a hernia during o...

R andom news articles from the RSS feed: Idaho hunter takes 180-pound wolf , via The Oudoor Pressroom . Head and skin to the left, from an ...

On the fridge all these many years. The U.S. Postal Service will release a Calvin & Hobbes stamp in July; Mr. Watterson grants an inter...

And I had a camera! *Is proud*

L IFE photographer Stan Wayman took the photos above for a February 4, 1966 article called Concentration Camps for Dogs. The graphic images...

O r so I hope. I'm from a long line of people who have shared their homes with all kinds of mutts and purebreds and have loved them fro...

Screen grab [and H/T]: the most excellent swissmiss . W hattaya mean, I can't use hemorrhage as a verb? Oh, sorry — haemorrhage . Too b...

From The Root , where you'll find some terrific writing from Henry Louis Gates Jr. , Alice Walker and others, in a special section in h...

Photos and related article at the NY Times . S AFE by Linda Bierds Safe, we thought. The floodwaters nestled the arc of their udders, but no...

Gaston Phébus [1331-1391], Livre de la Chasse . T her is a saying emong hunters that he cannot be a gentleman whyche loveth not hawkyng and ...

Library of the Abby of Saint Gall , the oldest library in Switzerland. " M y dear Selena,” I said, “to be always right is the claim of ...

National Stadium in Beijing, designed by Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron. Photo by Claro Cortes IV for Reuters. E xpect...

I am edgy, bold, informative, modern, unique and humorous . I am also a crappy, crappy photographer [weeps], but I hereby promise Pia that...

O n Mary Scriver's prairiemary blog, a fine essay on symbiosis. Excerpt: The business of animal control (or the function that we curre...