I wrote about the effort to decipher sperm whale language with artificial intelligence.
I reached out to philosophers, linguists, animal rights lawyers, marine biologists, field scientists who specialize in whales, and paleontologists. Assume that this works, I told them.
1/9 This is a thread about my new feature from our March issue.
It's called, ~~A Journey Into the Animal Mind~~
It's about consciousness.
Specifically, animal consciousness.
(There may not be any other kind.)
For months, @edyong209 has wrangled the pandemic's complex science & politics into 1 journalistic masterwork after another.
His searing, epic cover story brings together all that work & more to explain, with unsuprassed force & clarity, how we got here:
theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
"Although Philly produced a genuine boxing champion in Joe Frazier, the city has a statue of Rocky Balboa, an Italian-American fighter who never existed." - That's from this essential @AdamSerwer piece, explaining how Creed flipped Rocky's racial subtext
“An upheaval of this scale and speed—the destruction of black farming, an occupation that had defined the African American experience—might in any other context be described as a revolution or historical fulcrum. But it came and went with little remark.” theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
Sleep is a complete mystery from an evolutionary perspective: Why would an animal lay down, unconscious and defenseless, not eating or procreating, for hours-long stretches. We sent @vero_greenwood to Japan to find out. Read her dazzling feature here:
Our new cover story by @JenSeniorNY is a 20-year saga about a family still grieving the loss of their son on 9/11, each in their own way. It’s one of the most humane pieces we’ve ever published, and it cracked me open like few magazine stories ever have. theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
