In her 2024 book, Not the End of the World, Hannah Ritchie (Scottish data scientist and researcher at the University of Oxford) begins by noting surveys that document how pervasively young people today feel that "humanity is doomed" and "the future is frightening." She responds...
The 2025 Oscar-winning animated masterpiece Flow tells a beautiful story about nature and animals. The film weaves many emotions and subplots among its animal characters, blending morals, adventure, pathos, and humor. As the Best Animated Feature Film Oscar winner at the 2025 Academy Awards, Flow...
For more than 200 years, children throughout the world have been learning moral lessons from stories heavily populated by both verbal and non-verbal animal characters. Whether we are talking about Peter Rabbit and Jemima Puddleduck from Beatrix Potter, Babar the Elephant from Jean de Brunhoff,...
