A museum’s 3,500-year-old disposable cup shows the desire to avoid dishwashing is ancient

One is a paper discard from the 1990s. Researchers believe the other, made from clay, may have held wine before it was thrown out after an ancient party on the island of Crete.

A Brief History of the Fox

by Adele Brand

In a flash of geological time, we have rewritten the fox’s wildwood, in ways both graphic and subtle. We have added, taken away, replanted and concreted.