About That Plowshare Tortoise

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In an earlier post we pointed to a wondrous article in The New Yorker, and now a blog post on the magazine’s website has a collection of photo out-takes and some behind the scenes description of getting those shots:

The portrait that opens the piece, of Goode with a tortoise, just barely came together. “Everything was planned to the minute, and so many things could have gone wrong,” Torgovnik told me from Rwanda, where he was onto his next assignment.

Slow, Steady, Go

The January 23 issue of The New Yorker has an article on one wealthy man’s approach to conservation.  Click the image to the left to go to the article and if you are a subscriber to the magazine, and follow conservation trends, this will get your day off to an interesting start, provide a good respite from work in the middle of the day, or send you to bed dreaming.

It is paywalled, but as always available for purchase, and as always providing a tempting reason to subscribe to the magazine.  In case you do not have time to read it, or spare funds for a subscription, take a look at this short video based on some of the material covered in the article.

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