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[ad_1] So far this season, five plays by Black writers have opened on Broadway, and each has something urgent to say. Whether despair (“pass over”) or carefree (“Chicken & Biscuits”), generally representative (“Thoughts of a Colorful Man”) or laser beam specific (“Missing Blues”), they are talking to us now, like a newspaper come alive. Like …
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[ad_1] The world’s greatest jousting competitions can be found in some rotting trees in the New Zealand bush, where hordes of males compete for the opportunity to mate. Knights are not humans but New Zealand giraffe lice, an insect with a spear-like nose. The largest males smash each other until the other either retreats or …
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[ad_1] A meadow frog urinates so much that it can choke itself. Fortunately, the Philaenus spumarius beetle, which is about the size of a Tic Tac, has a butt catapult that regularly blasts globules of liquid waste into the air and safely away from its body. “On this tiny, tiny scale ballistics gets really complicated,” …