Science

One of them was: Lifetime of Love: Side-by-side then and now photos of pets who have lost their longtime families and a call to give them love again.

Ms. Hassen’s company, Outcomes for Pets Consulting, works with large animal shelters to decrease euthanasia rates and shorten animal stays.

If not, the plant can go to an expert.

Digitize a herbarium

Experienced taxonomists can quickly recognize most specimens, said Mr. Teisher, but that requires years of training.

There are eight million dried plant specimens at the Missouri Botanical Garden herbarium in St. Louis.

Last year the national birthrate was 1.4.

In 2023, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau, an estimated 163,000 households in the United States were using only dial-up for internet service.

They have fingers, they have hands,” Dr. Zheng said.

On an excursion last month, a seal bit their field guide, Seokju Woo, in the arm.

Traveling through the Red Sea and Suez Canal saves 14 to 18 days on each round trip between Asia and Europe, compared with going around Africa.

About the same number made the voyage in June.

They give us cheese, they give beer, they give L.S.D. — they do a lot of really cool things.

Mold thrives in wet environments.

There’s no standardized way of doing research on this, so that you can’t take two snapshots in time and really compare them.

The final task Ms. Catron and her friend try — staring into each other’s eyes for four minutes — is less well documented, with the suggested duration ranging from two minutes to four.

“Two minutes is just enough to be terrified,” she told me.

But Ms. Catron was unequivocal in her recommendation.

“Four really goes somewhere.”

In Mandy Len Catron’s Modern Love essay, “To Fall in Love With Anyone, Do This,” she refers to a study by the psychologist Arthur Aron (and others) that explores whether intimacy between two strangers can be accelerated by having them ask each other a specific series of personal questions.