Kathleen Yale is Orion’s digital editor and author of the award-winning children’s book, Howl Like a Wolf! and the forthcoming Guess My Animal!. She’s a former scriptwriter for the educational programs SciShow and Crash Course, and prior to that worked as a wildlife field biologist. She lives in Montana.
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Searching for Home in (Very) Rural Amercia
BEFORE IRANIAN AMERICAN cartoonist Navied Mahdavian moved with his wife and dog from San Francisco to an off-the-grid cabin in rural Idaho, he had never fished, gardened, hiked, hunted, or lived Continue reading
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Duck, Chair, Bone, Suspense: A Conversation with Jon Klassen
FOR YEARS, when looking for a bedtime book to read with my young children, I inevitably drifted toward the Jon Klassen section of the shelf. It didn’t matter if we were Continue reading
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Daisy Parrotfish
SOMEWHERE IN THE reefy waters of the Indo-Pacific, a daisy parrotfish (Chlorurus sordidus) is feasting on coral. She crunches up the hard knobs of calcium carbonate with her tough beaklike teeth, Continue reading
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32 Pets. 6 Weeks. One Winner: Orion’s Pet Madness Bracket Results
PET MADNESS WINNER: SNOOPY And… we have a winner. Snoopy takes the roses. When we started this wild ride, I honestly had no inkling who might win. But when Snoopy handily Continue reading
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Wolfish: A Conversation with Erica Berry
In which we discuss our mutual fascination with wolves, Erica’s new book Wolfish, fear, linguistics, wonder, our favorite werewolves, and the best wolf song to sing at karaoke night. (Spoiler: It’s Continue reading
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Roses Are Red, Sometimes: A Conversation with a Flower Expert
With Valentine’s Day looming, our digital editor Kathleen Yale called up Amy Stewart, author of Flower Confidential: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful, to talk about the ins and outs Continue reading
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The Mighty Modifications of the Yellow-Spotted Goanna
It’s a natural instinct to shelter our young underground, but the yellow-spotted goanna (Varanus panoptes) does this with remarkable determination and style. Not only is her burrow a unique helical shape, Continue reading
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Six Questions for Taylor Brorby, author of ‘Boys and Oil’
Set against the prairies and coalfields of North Dakota, Taylor Brorby’s Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land is a lyrical coming-of-age memoir about the loneliness of a Continue reading
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Consider the Nurse Ant
Across sub-Saharan Africa, droves of shiny black Matabele ants (Megaponera analis) assemble for daily termite raids. But their appetite puts them at risk, for their prey bites back with a matched Continue reading
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Thirty Children’s Picture Book Recommendations for the Holidays
WITH the holiday season upon us, you must—must!—be looking for the perfect picture books to give to your favorite children. And if you love Orion and compelling storytelling, if you Continue reading