Zócalo Public Square | Ideas Journalism With a Head and a Heart

Time 2020-07-21 13:05:27

Web Name: Zócalo Public Square | Ideas Journalism With a Head and a Heart

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A few hours after I learned my dad had died, my stepmom called me on speaker to ask if we wanted a ... Megafires—wildfires that burn more than 100,000 acres of land—have long been a fact of life across the ... At 938 feet above sea level, Mount Davidson is the highest natural point in San Francisco. And for nearly 30 years ... Living through the pandemic, alone, in Montrose, California, and other subjects on the mind of Zócalo's readers... When I read in the news that sea turtles are thriving during the COVID-19 pandemic, I was not surprised. After all, the reasoning was sound: Fear of the virus has left beaches from Florida to Indonesia and beyond empty of tourists, so more adult females turtles can come ashore to lay eggs and more baby hatchlings can scamper towards the sea. That a plague would be good for turtles made sense to me. As a sea turtle biologist, I’ve long studied how pernicious human foes—including organized crime, drug cartels, and high-seas piracy—have been godsends for sea turtles. In the absence of deliberate programs to protect sea turtles, which prefer solitude, anything that keeps humans away can be beneficial ... As a youngster, John Downing Weaver paid little attention to his mother when she told him stories of her and his father’s trip to Brownsville, Texas, in 1909. It wasn’t until the journalist was in his 50s that he got around to asking her about it. After all, it didn’t sound like a glamorous trip. “Some Negro soldiers shot up the town,” she said, “and Teddy Roosevelt kicked them out of the Army.” Weaver figured his father, a stenographer for the House of Representatives, had been tapped to cover a trial for the soldiers and summoned to Brownsville, a town on the Mexico border. “They didn’t have a trial,” Mrs. Weaver responded. “He just kicked them out ... A Letter From Bogotá, Where Hunger Feels More Threatening Than the Virus Delivering Fruit by Bicycle, an Expat Pedals Across the Sprawling Capital City and Tries to Imagine What the Future Will Look Like A Letter From São Paulo, Where the Definition of ‘Unbearable’ Has Shifted As Brazil’s Death Count Rises, a Writer of Fantasies Embraces Realism in Quarantine A Letter From Beijing, Where There Is No Normal to Go Back to During Months in Lockdown, a Family Grows Closer and Gets Better at Taking Disappointments in Stride  Zócalo's 2020 Summer Reading List Suits a Time Devoid of the Usual Escapes From Why We Started Calling Ourselves 'America' to Brains With a Mind of Their Own, These 15 Books Examine Essential Questions About Who We Are Where I Go: Jigsaw Puzzles Whenever I Have Too Much to Think About or Not Enough, I Pull Out a Puzzle     Masks Have a Rich, Deep History Tailor-Made for Californians The State’s Highly Polarized Debate Over Face Masks Is Dumb and Dull, and Forgets That Masquerade Is About ‘Fun and Finding Light in Darkness’ Get More Zócalo No paywall. No ads. No partisan hacks. Ideas journalism with a head and a heart.

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