Click Here to Read: Scientists Revive the Dire Wolf, or Something Close: Dire wolves, made famous by “Game of Thrones,” went extinct some 13,000 years ago. Now, researchers have bred gray-wolf pups that carry genes of their ancient cousins By Carl Zimmer in The New York Times on April 7. 2025.
Reconstruction of Canis dirus (dire wolf) (Pleistocene, North America) Image: James St. John Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Click Here to Read: The Hallucinatory Thoughts of the Dying Mind: Delirium is one of the most perplexing deathbed phenomena, exposing the gap between our cultural ideals of dying words and the reality of a disoriented mind by Michael Erard on the MIT Press Reader website.
Lord Byron on his Death-bed by Joseph Denis Odevaere.
Click Here to Read: Entire Staff Is Fired at Office That Helps Poorer Americans Pay for Heating: The move threatens to paralyze the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, which helps to offset high utility bills for roughly 6.2 million people nationwide By Brad Plumer in the New York Times on April 2, 2025.
Arlex heating oil delivery truck – Arlington, MA Image: Daderot Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
