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    Rowan Jacobsen has written for the New York Times, Newsweek, Harper’s, Outside, Eating Well, Forbes, Popular Science, and others, and his work has been anthologized in The Best American Science and Nature Writing and Best Food Writing collections.

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      Rowan Jacobsen

    • Something Is Seriously Wrong on the East Coast—and It’s Killing All the Baby Puffins

      Rowan Jacobsen

    • Why Your Supermarket Sells Only 5 Kinds of Apples

      Rowan Jacobsen

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