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A new book by Gillian Sandstrom explains the research behind why it’s good for us to talk to strangers and how to go about it ...

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After eight years of planning, wildlife photojournalist Andy Skillen finally captured one of the Arctic’s rarest spectacles: polar bears fishing for char in a remote northern Canadian fjord I checked ...

I love observing birds in the wild and catching them on camera. This is the gear I use to attract them to my yard and get the ...