The celebrated author on the challenges of being kind, the benefits of meditation and the reality check of death.

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Darwin knows what cameras look like – and how to avoid them. From inside his enclosure, the monkey of Toronto Ikea parking lot fame spots us out of the corner of his eye and bolts under the table. The ...

Dav Pilkey’s Dog Man series dominates bestseller charts in both US and UK markets for graphic novels. Bunny vs. Monkey by ...

God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation'—about the famous Scopes “monkey trial,” is timely. Then again, church-state conflicts simply never go away in the United States.

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