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Arkansas Mountain Lions

Move over Lion King: Arkansas now has mountain lions. The controversy over whether mountain lions exist locally is over.

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Who Litters, and Why?

Keep America Beautiful’s 2009 report on Littering Behavior in America documented almost 10,000 randomly selected people at 350 locations across ten states in urban, rural and suburban settings.

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Rape As Plot: Is It Taken Seriously?

There has been an ongoing discussion among pop culture about when it is or isn’t okay for rape to be used for the sake of a story. These discussions, however, are rife with odd double standards.

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Trees that Make History

Bent trees have a strange way of attracting attention like bigfoot.

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Y’allquaeda and Executive Orders

By this point, everyone has heard about the Bundy clan; the “militia” that’s taken over a federally owned bird sanctuary and staging an armed occupation.

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The Gallaghers Return

“Shameless,” Showtime’s U.S. remake of a U.K. show by the same name, returns this Sunday for a sixth season.

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Ecological Calendars Make Time Logical And Natural

Our days are numbered. But numbering them on the conventional calendar has removed us from humanity’s place in time and natural cycles throughout the year.

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2015: A Year of Divisive Outrage

We’re here, readers. The good year 2016 is upon us.

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Arkansas: The Bear State

Before Arkansas was known as “The Natural State,” it was informally referred to as “The Bear State” because we had so many black bears (Ursus americanus).

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The Year In Review (Sort Of…)

Combing through my old articles to find the things I need to talk about was a bit overwhelming, honestly.