Click Here to Read: How to Eat a 2,000-Pound Fish? These Orcas Choose to Pulverize It. Marine biologists in Mexico captured video of a strange maneuver that killer whales used to shred their meal By Alexa Robles-Gil in The New York Times on July 23, 2026.
Killerwhales jumping Image: Robert Pittman Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Click Here to Read: Microplastics in the Brain: What Evidence Shows (and What It Doesn’t) By Emily Meenan, Grace Schroeder on the Brain and Life website on March 9, 2026,
Microplastic poses a growing concern in oceans and other aquatic habitat. Image: 5Gyres, courtesy of Oregon State University. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Click Here to Read: A passage from Homer’s Iliad has been discovered inside the abdomen of a Roman-era Egyptian mummy: A snippet of text from Homer’s famous epic recounting the siege of Troy was apparently placed inside this body as part of the mummification process By Adam Kovac edited by Claire Cameron on The Scientific American website on April 23, 2026.
Hera, Athena and Iris in the Trojan War (Iris, at the Behest of Zeus, Warns Athena and Hera not to Assist the Greeks in their War with the Trojans.) Image: Jacques Réattu (1760–1833) . Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Click Here to Read: What African Countries Can Teach Everyone About Flourishing: New research challenges assumptions about well-being and highlights the role of culture, connection, and purpose By Victor Counted on the Greater Good website on July 15, 2026.
A masai woman carrying her baby in a sarong knitted around her body Image: Vendeeelaaa Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
GRAND ROUNDS
Click Here to Read: William Cullen Bryant (November 3, 1794 – June 12, 1878): Nature became America’s first great theologian by Robert Goodman on his Spoken Word Poetry substack on July 22, 2026.
William Cullen Bryant by Wyatt Eaton (1849–1896). Gift of William T. Evans to The Brooklyn Museum. Public Domail via Wikimedia Commons.
