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The Smallest Thing That Survives Everything: child loss, grief, and the failure of fairness
There is a creature so small you cannot see it with the naked eye that has survived every catastrophe this planet has ever produced.
Mar 29
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Shannon Shpak
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Almost Sixteen: Grief and Child Loss
The mayfly spends three years at the bottom of a river before it has a single day of life above the water.
Mar 20
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Shannon Shpak
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The Weeping Woman
The human brain is a prediction machine.
Mar 12
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Shannon Shpak
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Fengzheng
In ancient China during the Qingming Festival, people visited the graves of their ancestors.
Mar 5
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Shannon Shpak
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February 2026
All The Thoughts Of A Turtle Are Turtle
A sea turtle hatchling imprints on the magnetic field of the beach where it is born.
Feb 28
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Shannon Shpak
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Tears Of Things
In Portuguese there is a word, saudade, that has no equivalent in English.
Feb 20
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Shannon Shpak
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Lepidoptera: On the Fragility of Everything
My father taught me the word Lepidoptera when I was ten years old.
Feb 12
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Shannon Shpak
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380 Billion Ways to Miss Something
380 Billion Ways to Miss Something
Feb 5
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Shannon Shpak
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January 2026
Eight Minutes of Light
Here is what I know about light.
Jan 29
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Shannon Shpak
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J35
An orca named Tahlequah carried her dead calf on her head for seventeen days, traveling over a thousand miles through the Pacific.
Jan 22
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Shannon Shpak
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The Case Against Love
Love is easy to defend in theory.
Jan 15
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Shannon Shpak
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Tenebrae
I didn’t know the darkness would still find me.
Jan 10
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Shannon Shpak
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