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about how mortal beings strive to make what they can of themselves. </div> <p class="text-label color-gray mb-xs-3 mb-lg-0"> March 21, 2024 issue </p> </a> <div class="rule-10 d-lg-none"></div> </article> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row mb-md-6 featured-posts-tertiary"> <div class="col-12 col-lg-4"> <article class="mb-xs-3 mb-lg-6"> <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/03/07/ready-to-rumble-mountains-of-fire/" class="article-card"> <div class="small-thumb-mobile ml-xs-3 ml-lg-0 float-right float-lg-none d-inline-block" > <figure class="border-light-gray embed-responsive-3by2 embed-responsive mb-0"> <img src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/flannery_1-030724-900.jpg?w=1680" class="mw-100 embed-responsive-item object-fit-cover" alt=""> </figure> </div> <div class="text-small mb-xs-1 color-ny-red hover-text-ny-red semi-bold"> <span class="color-ny-red text-small hover-text-ny-red semi-bold"><strong>Tim Flannery</strong></span> </div> <p class="h4 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hover-text-ny-red semi-bold"> <span class="color-ny-red text-small hover-text-ny-red semi-bold"><strong>Natalie de Souza</strong></span> </div> <p class="h4 d-block mb-xs-1 card-title card-title-ny-red">The Dark Tangle of Alzheimer’s</p> <p class="text-small mb-xs-1 article-card-excerpt">Recent breakthroughs in dementia treatments have been hailed as successes, but after decades of disappointing research it is difficult to be optimistic. </p> <p class="text-label color-gray mb-xs-3"> February 22, 2024 issue </p> </a> <div class="rule-10 d-lg-none"></div> </article> </div> <div class="col-12 col-lg-4"> <article class="mb-xs-3 mb-lg-6"> <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/02/08/month-to-month-period-the-real-story-of-menstruation/" class="article-card"> <div class="small-thumb-mobile ml-xs-3 ml-lg-0 float-right float-lg-none d-inline-block" > <figure class="border-light-gray embed-responsive-3by2 embed-responsive mb-0"> <img src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/kolbe_1-020824-900.jpg?w=1680" class="mw-100 embed-responsive-item object-fit-cover" alt=""> </figure> </div> <div class="text-small mb-xs-1 color-ny-red hover-text-ny-red semi-bold"> <span class="color-ny-red text-small hover-text-ny-red semi-bold"><strong>Laura Kolbe</strong></span> </div> <p class="h4 d-block mb-xs-1 card-title card-title-ny-red">Month to Month</p> <p class="text-small mb-xs-1 article-card-excerpt">What we as a society prefer not to know about periods extends beyond menstruation itself to its management and the management of women’s health more broadly. </p> <p class="text-label color-gray mb-xs-3"> February 8, 2024 issue </p> </a> </article> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="article-collection"> <div class="article-collection-inner w-100 mb-xs-6 mb-lg-12"> <div class="container position-relative px-0"> <div class="collection-top text-center"> <div class="collection-title h2 pt-xs-2 pb-xs-1 pl-xs-4 pr-xs-4 bg-ny-red color-yellow d-inline-block mb-0">Dinosaurs!</div> <div class="collection-top-border border-ny-red pl-lg-2 pr-lg-2"></div> </div> </div> <div class="container position-relative pt-xs-6 pt-lg-8"> <div class="border-wrap border-ny-red pl-lg-2 pr-lg-2"></div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-12 col-lg-3 mb-xs-3 mb-lg-12"> <article> <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/12/19/what-were-dinosaurs-for/" class="article-card"> <div class="small-thumb-mobile ml-xs-3 ml-lg-0 float-right float-lg-none d-inline-block" > <figure class="border-light-gray embed-responsive-3by2 embed-responsive mb-0"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/klinkenborg_1-121919.jpg?w=298" srcset="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/klinkenborg_1-121919.jpg?w=92 92w, https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/klinkenborg_1-121919.jpg?w=184 184w, https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/klinkenborg_1-121919.jpg?w=298 298w, https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/klinkenborg_1-121919.jpg?w=596 596w" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 92px, 298px" class="mw-100 embed-responsive-item object-fit-cover" alt="A life-size model of the early Cretaceous tyrannosaur Yutyrannus huali; from Mark Norell’s The World of Dinosaurs: An Illustrated Tour. Originally part of the American Museum of Natural History’s 2016 exhibition ‘Dinosaurs Among Us,’ curated by Norell, it is twenty-three feet long and is now in the permanent collection of the Dinosaur Gallery at the Center of Science and Industry, Columbus, Ohio." > </figure> </div> <div class="text-small mb-xs-1 color-ny-red hover-text-ny-red semi-bold"> <span class="color-ny-red text-small hover-text-ny-red semi-bold"><strong>Verlyn Klinkenborg</strong></span> </div> <p class="h4 d-block mb-xs-1 card-title card-title-ny-red">What Were Dinosaurs For?</p> <p class="text-small mb-xs-1 article-card-excerpt">It has become impossible to think about extinction in the old ways, to regard the end-Cretaceous demise of some 80 percent of life on earth as a remote, alien fact. </p> <p class="text-label color-gray"> December 19, 2019 issue </p> </a> <div class="rule-article d-lg-none"></div> </article> </div> <div class="col-12 col-lg-3 mb-xs-3 mb-lg-12"> <article> <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2002/01/17/dinosaur-crazy/" class="article-card"> <div class="small-thumb-mobile ml-xs-3 ml-lg-0 float-right float-lg-none d-inline-block" > <figure class="border-light-gray embed-responsive-3by2 embed-responsive mb-0"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2002/01/megalosaurus.png?w=298" srcset="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2002/01/megalosaurus.png?w=92 92w, https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2002/01/megalosaurus.png?w=184 184w, https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2002/01/megalosaurus.png?w=298 298w, https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2002/01/megalosaurus.png?w=596 596w" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 92px, 298px" class="mw-100 embed-responsive-item object-fit-cover" alt="" > </figure> </div> <div class="text-small mb-xs-1 color-ny-red hover-text-ny-red semi-bold"> <span class="color-ny-red text-small hover-text-ny-red semi-bold"><strong>Tim Flannery</strong></span> </div> <p class="h4 d-block mb-xs-1 card-title card-title-ny-red">Dinosaur Crazy</p> <p class="text-small mb-xs-1 article-card-excerpt">In <em>Terrible Lizard</em>, Deborah Cadbury sets herself the task of explaining how the curious Victorian image of dinosaurs—“Would it not be wonderful to meet a Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn Hill?” mused Charles Dickens in <em>Bleak House</em>—came to be. </p> <p class="text-label color-gray"> January 17, 2002 issue </p> </a> <div class="rule-article d-lg-none"></div> </article> </div> <div class="col-12 col-lg-3 mb-xs-3 mb-lg-12"> <article> <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1996/04/04/first-fine-careless-raptor/" class="article-card"> <div class="small-thumb-mobile ml-xs-3 ml-lg-0 float-right float-lg-none d-inline-block" > <figure class="border-light-gray embed-responsive-3by2 embed-responsive mb-0"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/1996/04/Pecile_velociraptor01.png?w=298" srcset="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/1996/04/Pecile_velociraptor01.png?w=92 92w, https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/1996/04/Pecile_velociraptor01.png?w=184 184w, https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/1996/04/Pecile_velociraptor01.png?w=298 298w, https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/1996/04/Pecile_velociraptor01.png?w=596 596w" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 92px, 298px" class="mw-100 embed-responsive-item object-fit-cover" alt="" > </figure> </div> <div class="text-small mb-xs-1 color-ny-red hover-text-ny-red semi-bold"> <span class="color-ny-red text-small hover-text-ny-red semi-bold"><strong>Elizabeth Marshall Thomas</strong></span> </div> <p class="h4 d-block mb-xs-1 card-title card-title-ny-red">First Fine Careless Raptor</p> <p class="text-small mb-xs-1 article-card-excerpt">“Mammals and dinosaurs diverged from a common ancestor about 260 million years ago. Dinosaurs subsequently evolved to fill every possible ecological niche, from which they ruled the earth for 160 million years and became the most successful vertebrates in the history of the planet. During all that time we mammals managed to evolve into nothing larger than a cat.” </p> <p class="text-label color-gray"> April 4, 1996 issue </p> </a> <div class="rule-article d-lg-none"></div> </article> </div> <div class="col-12 col-lg-3 mb-xs-3 mb-lg-12"> <article> <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1993/08/12/dinomania/" class="article-card"> <div class="small-thumb-mobile ml-xs-3 ml-lg-0 float-right float-lg-none d-inline-block" > <figure class="border-light-gray embed-responsive-3by2 embed-responsive mb-0"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/1993/08/LA-Triceratops_mount-2-scaled.jpeg?w=298" srcset="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/1993/08/LA-Triceratops_mount-2-scaled.jpeg?w=92 92w, https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/1993/08/LA-Triceratops_mount-2-scaled.jpeg?w=184 184w, https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/1993/08/LA-Triceratops_mount-2-scaled.jpeg?w=298 298w, https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/1993/08/LA-Triceratops_mount-2-scaled.jpeg?w=596 596w" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 92px, 298px" class="mw-100 embed-responsive-item object-fit-cover" alt="" > </figure> </div> <div class="text-small mb-xs-1 color-ny-red hover-text-ny-red semi-bold"> <span class="color-ny-red text-small hover-text-ny-red semi-bold"><strong>Stephen Jay Gould</strong></span> </div> <p class="h4 d-block mb-xs-1 card-title card-title-ny-red">Dinomania</p> <p class="text-small mb-xs-1 article-card-excerpt">When dinosaurs get the Hollywood treatment, will museums follow suit? 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