Marina Bolotnikova

1 week ago | vox.com | Marina Bolotnikova

If you’ve spent any time on the internet over the last several years, you may have noticed the profusion of two closely linked trends — one very positive, the other its warped refraction. Lots of Americans have taken up weightlifting, and partly as a result, protein maximalism has become the macronutrient fad du jour, like the low-fat diets of the 1980s and low-carb in the early 2000s.

1 month ago | vox.com | Marina Bolotnikova

Don’t buy the hype about “de-extinction.”Marina Bolotnikova is a deputy editor for Vox’s Future Perfect section. Before joining Vox, she reported on factory farming for national outlets including the Guardian, the Intercept, and elsewhere. Let’s start with what should be obvious: The wolf pups are not dire wolves, and they haven’t been “de-extincted.”The fluffy white canines — Romulus, Remus, and Khaleesi — unveiled this week by Colossal Biosciences are closer to something like designer dogs.

1 month ago | vox.com | Marina Bolotnikova

Don’t buy the hype about “de-extinction.”Marina Bolotnikova is a deputy editor for Vox’s Future Perfect section. Before joining Vox, she reported on factory farming for national outlets including the Guardian, the Intercept, and elsewhere. Let’s start with what should be obvious: The wolf pups are not dire wolves, and they haven’t been “de-extincted.”The fluffy white canines — Romulus, Remus, and Khaleesi — unveiled this week by Colossal Biosciences are closer to something like designer dogs.

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Marina Bolotnikova

1 day agoThe dire wolf, an ancient species that went extinct more than 10,000 years ago, has been revived in a “de-extinction” according to scientists. On Monday (7 April), Texas-based Colossal Biosciences said they have revived the extinct species famously featured in Game of Thrones with three puppies: Romulus, Remus, and Khaleesi. The company shared a video on X capturing the moment they said showed modern dire wolf puppies howling for the first time in more than 10,000 years.

1 month ago | vox.com | Marina Bolotnikova

Marina Bolotnikova is a deputy editor for Vox’s Future Perfect section. Before joining Vox, she reported on factory farming for national outlets including the Guardian, the Intercept, and elsewhere. At Vox, I specialize in writing and editing all sorts of stories about animal agriculture and the future of food, from the strange ritual of eating turkeys on Thanksgiving to the policy debates around the fate of mother pigs in the pork industry.