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🚨 Beyond thrilled to announce that I am, at long last, writing a book.🚨
Ross Andersen
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Ross Andersen
@andersen
staff writer @theatlantic // writing a book for @randomhouse // rep’d by @elysecheney // [email protected]
- I wrote about the effort to decipher sperm whale language with artificial intelligence. I reached out to philosophers, linguists, animal rights lawyers, marine biologists, field scientists who specialize in whales, and paleontologists. Assume that this works, I told them.
- 1/9 This is a thread about my new feature from our March issue. It's called, ~~A Journey Into the Animal Mind~~ It's about consciousness. Specifically, animal consciousness. (There may not be any other kind.)
- For months, @edyong209 has wrangled the pandemic's complex science & politics into 1 journalistic masterwork after another. His searing, epic cover story brings together all that work & more to explain, with unsuprassed force & clarity, how we got here: theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
- "Although Philly produced a genuine boxing champion in Joe Frazier, the city has a statue of Rocky Balboa, an Italian-American fighter who never existed." - That's from this essential @AdamSerwer piece, explaining how Creed flipped Rocky's racial subtext
- “An upheaval of this scale and speed—the destruction of black farming, an occupation that had defined the African American experience—might in any other context be described as a revolution or historical fulcrum. But it came and went with little remark.” theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
- Sleep is a complete mystery from an evolutionary perspective: Why would an animal lay down, unconscious and defenseless, not eating or procreating, for hours-long stretches. We sent @vero_greenwood to Japan to find out. Read her dazzling feature here:
- I lost my Dad yesterday, and already miss him terribly. I wrote about his life here:
- Hearing yourself interrupt someone who is saying something interesting while transcribing <<<<<<<<<<
- Our new cover story by @JenSeniorNY is a 20-year saga about a family still grieving the loss of their son on 9/11, each in their own way. It’s one of the most humane pieces we’ve ever published, and it cracked me open like few magazine stories ever have. theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
