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“The Lure of the Hunt: How Falconry is Faring in America” in Virginia Quarterly Review

by Amanda Giracca on October 18, 2015October 18, 2015

The first thing I notice, as if there’s anything else remarkable about this scrubby swath of suburbia, is the glinting network of 9,000 solar panels, cordoned off by a chain-link fence: not the setting I had imagined when I thought of hunting, but then falconry is an adaptable sport. On a cold and clear Saturday […]

“The Edge of Extraordinary” in Vela Magazine

by Amanda Giracca on August 21, 2015August 21, 2015

Excerpted from Vela Magazine: I had gone into science for the awe, but I eventually discovered that continuing on that path would mean that most of my life would be made up of statistics, entering numbers into databases, writing papers so dry that they didn’t feel like writing to me. Moments of awe would be […]

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