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From: NYTimes.com <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: The New York Times Magazine: What Animals Are Teaching Us About Human Health Date: Fri, 19 May 2017 22:04:19 +0000 View in Browser Add [email protected] to your address book. QThe New York limes [610,The New York Times Friday, May 19, 2017 NYTimes.com » "Animals don't exist in order to teach us things," writes Helen Macdonald, in the introductory essay for this week's issue — "but that is what they have always done, and most of what they teach us is what we think we know about ourselves." The stories in this issue focus on what animals have shown us about human health, but many of them also challenge how we see the nonhuman creatures around us. We asked a selection of writers — Joyce Carol Oates, Junot Diaz, Mohsin Hamid, Karen Russell, Hanya Yanagihara, Daniel Engber, Moises Velasquez-Manoff, Emily Anthes — to look from new angles at the other beings we share our planet with: our best friends, our research subjects, our nuisances, our inspirations our family. Elsewhere in the magazine, Carina Chocano writes about the Fyre Festival — and the ways everyday life is starting to resemble a never-ending scam. Gary Rivlin explores the notion of "Grades 13 and 14," time tacked onto the end of high school to prepare our students for better jobs. And Gabrielle Hamilton shares a recipe for chowder-soaked toast, a dish born when she and her wife decided to run "her" restaurant, Prune, together — as "their" restaurant. Happy reading, Jake Silverstein Editor in Chief EFTA00650550 IPA family photograph of the writer with house sparrows in 1979. A family photograph of the writer with house sparrows in 1979. Alisdair Macdonald THE HEALTH ISSUE What Animals Taught Me About Being Human Li) \id) Surrounding myself with animals to feel less alone was a mistake: The greatest comfort is in knowing their lives are not about us at all. cr., ncrr I.n.en form. Sr.: THE HEALTH ISSUE A Pet Tortoise Who Will Outlive Us All li). \ANAGIIIARA It's humbling to care for an animal that reminds you, each day, of your own imminent death. m P,i.,ii tian for The New Yorklimes THE HEALTH ISSUE The Mystery of the Wasting House-Cats AN I Ili Forty years ago, feline hyperthyroidism was virtually nonexistent. Now it's an epidemic — and some scientists think a class of everyday chemicals might be to blame. WELL Of Mice and Mindfulness lip GREItlIEN REV NOI.DS Putting mice into something like a meditative state may shed light on the human brain. EFTA00650551 NOTEBOOK `We Choose Each Other Over and Over Because We Want to': Readers Share Their Open-Marriage Stories By JEANNIE . More than 3oo readers weighed in on whether an open marriage is a happier marriage based on their personal experience. ADVERTISEMENT Ili (Zoie Brogdon, Age 12: 'I tried soccer, which I hated. I tried track, and there was just mean people. I tried tennis, same thing, mean people. With horses, there still are mean people, but I don't care. Because I have my horse right next to me." Zoie Brogdon, Age 12: "I tried soccer, which I hated. I tried track, and there was just mean people. I tried tennis, same thing, mean people. With horses, there still are mean people, but I don't care. Because I have my horse right next to me." Ilona Szwarc for The New York Times THE HEALTH ISSUE Why Close Encounters With Animals Soothe Us • ILONA SZWARC AND 1 I Compton Jr. Posse in Los Angeles, which brings inner-city children and horses together, reveals the therapeutic power of communing with fellow sentient beings. EFTA00650552 atherine Ledner for the New York 1 THE HEALTH ISSUE The Genetics of Pooched- Out Pooches By ROXANNE KI JAMS! A mutation in some obesity-prone dog breeds might reveal new risk factors for obesity in humans — and perhaps give rise to new drugs. Illustration by Kelsey Dake THE HEALTH ISSUE The Self-Medicating Animal By MOISES VELASQUEZ-MANOFF What can we learn from chimps and sheep and maybe even insects that practice medicine on themselves? THE HEALTH ISSUE When the Lab Rat Is a Snake Why Burmese pythons may be the best way to study diabetes, heart disease and the protective effects of gastric-bypass surgery in humans. FIRST WORDS From Wells Fargo to Fyre Festival, the Scam Economy Is Entering Its Baroque Phase B) CARINA CI IOCANO We all may be losing sight of the difference between appearance and reality — between what we advertise and what we do. ADVERTISEMENT EFTA00650553 GJ GJ FOLLOW NYTimes Tw @nytmag Get more NYTimes.com newsletters » Get unlimited access to NYTimes.com and our NYTimes apps. Subscribe ABOUT THIS EMAIL You received this message because you signed up for NYlimes.com's The New York Times Magazine newsletter. Unsubscribe Manage Subscriptions Change Your Email Privacy Policy Contact Advertise Copyright 2017 The New York Times Company 620 Eighth Avenue New York, NY 10018 rr EFTA00650554