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Dawn Starin

Dawn Starin is an anthropologist. Her writings have appeared in both peer-reviewed journals and popular publications and news sites as varied as Al Jazeera, the Christian Science Monitor, the Humanist, Natural History, the New York Times, Philosophy Now, the Progressive,  Prospect and Scientific American, amongst others

Marinara Rustica pizza at Inferno Pizzeria Napoletana photographed for Weekend in Darnestown, MDon January 12, 2020. (Laura Chase de Formigny for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

An ode to the humble, healthy (?) pizza pie

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Snake Wines & Liquors (Getty Images/Andy Krakovski)

The false promise of snake wine in Southeast Asia

Dawn Starin
An adult female western red colobus monkey grooming an adult male. (Dawn Starin)

What I learned about human politics from studying colobus monkeys

Dawn Starin
Born on July 17, 1819, Eunice Newton Foote was an amateur scientist and a women's rights campaigner who was friends with American suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Foote's experiments with atmospheric gases and her insights about past climate were overlooked for more than a century. (Drawing by Carlyn Iverson/NOAA/Climate.gov)

Remembering Eunice Foote, the suffragette-scientist who prophesied climate change

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A cute goat (Getty Images)

The case for firefighting goats

Dawn Starin