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The 5.21.17 Issue

Highlights

  1. The Health Issue

    What Animals Taught Me About Being Human

    Surrounding myself with animals to feel less alone was a mistake: The greatest comfort is in knowing their lives are not about us at all.

     By Helen Macdonald

    A family photograph of the writer with house sparrows in 1979.
    CreditAlisdair Macdonald
  2. The Health Issue

    The Self-Medicating Animal

    What can we learn from chimps and sheep and maybe even insects that practice medicine on themselves?

     By Moises Velasquez-Manoff

    CreditIllustration by Kelsey Dake
  3. The Health Issue

    The Genetics of Pooched-Out Pooches

    A mutation in some obesity-prone dog breeds might reveal new risk factors for obesity in humans — and perhaps give rise to new drugs.

     By Roxanne Khamsi

    CreditPhoto illustration by Catherine Ledner for the New York Times. Prop stylist: Jeanne Kelley.
  4. The Health Issue

    The Mystery of the Wasting House-Cats

    Forty years ago, feline hyperthyroidism was virtually nonexistent. Now it’s an epidemic — and some scientists think a class of everyday chemicals might be to blame.

     By Emily Anthes

    CreditMark Peckmezian for The New York Times

  1. Why Close Encounters With Animals Soothe Us

    Compton Jr. Posse in Los Angeles, which brings inner-city children and horses together, reveals the therapeutic power of communing with fellow sentient beings.

     Photographs by Ilona Szwarc and Text By Charles Siebert

    CreditIlona Szwarc for The New York Times Photo
    The Health Issue

  2. When the Lab Rat Is a Snake

    Why Burmese pythons may be the best way to study diabetes, heart disease and the protective effects of gastric-bypass surgery in humans.

     By Daniel Engber

    Burmese python.
    CreditRobert Clark for The New York Times
    The Health Issue

  3. A Pet Tortoise Who Will Outlive Us All

    It’s humbling to care for an animal that reminds you, each day, of your own imminent death.

     By Hanya Yanagihara

    CreditSpencer Lowell for The New York Times
    The Health Issue

  4. The Kites Are Leaving

    Human families aren’t the only kind displaced by Lahore’s construction boom.

     By Mohsin Hamid

    CreditIllustration by Tim Lahan
    The Health Issue

  5. The Death of My Hermit Crab

    What I learned from the little shell.

     By Karen Russell

    CreditIllustration by Tim Lahan
    The Health Issue

  1. The Mongoose and the Émigré

    That audacious animal was a tether to home.

     By Junot Díaz

    CreditIllustration by Tim Lahan
    The Health Issue

  2. The Rooster Attacked Me — and Yet I Loved Him

    The cruelest farmyard animal is revealing of human nature.

     By Joyce Carol Oates

    CreditIllustration by Tim Lahan
    The Health Issue

  3. From Wells Fargo to Fyre Festival, the Scam Economy Is Entering Its Baroque Phase

    We all may be losing sight of the difference between appearance and reality — between what we advertise and what we do.

     By Carina Chocano

    CreditIllustration by Derek Brahney
    First Words

  4. Should Students Get ‘Grades 13 and 14’ Free of Charge?

    Four years of free public college might be unrealistic, but two years could help students find better jobs, and keep the country’s economy competitive.

     By Gary Rivlin

    CreditIllustration by Andrew Rae
    On Money

  5. Chowder-Soaked Toast Any Chef Would Want to Claim

    When you run your restaurant with your wife, it can be tricky to tell where one voice starts and the other leaves off.

     By Gabrielle Hamilton

    Hot and milky: chowder-soaked toast.
    CreditGentl and Hyers for The New York Times
    Eat

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