pigs and dogs, monkeys and cats. yay!

usagov:

The warmer than average temperatures this winter have led trees to release their pollen into the air earlier than usual. That’s great if you’re a lonely tree, but not so great if you’re a person who suffers from seasonal plant allergies, also known as hay fever.

Feel like you’re coming down with…

good:

Climate Change Is Forcing Entire Countries to Migrate

The island nation of Kiribati could buy land in Fiji to start transplanting its population off its disappearing islands. Families in Kiribati’s low-lying areas don’t have the luxury of contemplating the fates of future generations—they must start acting now. And while Kiribati is one of the larger communities that’s responding to climate pressures today, it’s not the only one.

Read the story on GOOD→ 

warbyparker:

Identity Crisis by Mason Phillips.

Do campaigns like these make you more or less likely to delve deeper into issues and take social action?

nprfreshair:

On today’s Fresh Air, actor Michael Fassbender discusses his roles in Jane Eyre, A Dangerous Method, Inglorious Basterds, X-Men and Shame: ” I did take each individual sex scene as a way for me to show the audience what was going on inside my character’s head.”

newyorker:

Look at Me: Photographing Female Adolescence

“It is the time when there is still an awkward awareness that they are being watched, but there is also a willingness to reveal something of themselves or the person they are trying to be.” Tealia Ellis Ritter, on photographing female adolescence: http://nyr.kr/yR3kpB

Photograph 1: Tealia Ellis Ritter, “Olivia (The Live Creature and Ethereal Things),” 2009. Courtesy the artist.

Photograph 2: Michael Spano, “Eye and Mirror Portrait,” 1984. Courtesy of the artist.

good:

cordjefferson:

Motherfucking progress.

A big “welcome home” to all the troops, gay, straight, or otherwise.

newyorker:

Bipolar: Scott Sternbach at the Earth’s Extremes

In 2008, the photographer Scott Sternbach travelled to the world’s southern extreme to create “Antarctic Souls,” a project that focussed on the thirty-odd researchers, biologists, cooks, pilots, and boat captains who are involved in a federal project to study the effects of global warming on the region. Sternbach, who currently serves as the director of photography at LaGuardia Community College, has long dreamed of visiting the far north as well. He recently got his chance thanks to a grant from CUNY, which sent him to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, in Alaska, where he spent eight weeks photographing one of the state’s last living tribes, the Neetsaii Gwich’in.

- Click through to read about Sternbach’s experience, and for more photographs from his time among the Neetsaii Gwich’in: http://nyr.kr/tSXoTz