Peter Lawrence Kane

  • The World's Largest Snake Doesn't Need Males to Breed

    We talked to the zookeeper in charge of Thelma, the world-famous snake that just had a virgin birth. It may be unsettling to imagine one less barrier in the way of more snakes, but finding new ways of making snakes might just be important.

  • Are We Already Running Out of Useful Smartphone Apps?

    Games and novelties aside, there are simply fewer and fewer areas of daily life that remain to be "disrupted" by utopian-minded Silicon Valley geeks. The golden age of the app may be coming to an end.

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