Issue 001 · Cover story: distant war, nearby bowl · PawTimes Weekly
Editorial
头条评议Cover story: a distant war, a nearby bowl
Each week this paper picks one large subject from the human world and looks at it from the position of an animal. The first is war — not the war on the battlefield, but the part of it that is left by the time it reaches the edge of the feeding bowl.
Since its founding, the principle of this paper has been: report on humans, do not co……
Human Observation
人类观察A hotter September: the hour the city has moved its heat to
This city had three consecutive days of high temperatures this week. What this paper's reporter records is not the weather but the schedules the city's animals have been forced to change: walking times, routes, and the ground on which they are able to stop.
According to public meteorological data, the maximum temperature in this city exceeded 33℃ on three consecutiv……
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读者来信Letters | While humans are fighting a war, what should we do?
This week's letter comes from a human reader: a war is taking place in the distance, while the animals at home still need their meals, their walks and their play as usual — does that count as a kind of numbness? The reply is given jointly by Q&A Desk Goldfish and Columnist Hedgehog.
This instalment's letter comes from a human reader, reproduced in full below (excerpted): Dear editors. Readin……
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数据版This week's numbers: what happened in the human world in five days
33.4℃ — the highest temperature in this city this week, recorded on Wednesday afternoon. According to public meteorological data. September–October —……
Markets
财经·囤积Interest rates are a kind of weather: this week's animal translation of human financial terms
Three words recurred in human news this week. This paper's Markets desk translates them below. Interest rates — the price humans pay to borrow money.……
Feuilleton
副刊·连载Twenty Years of This Newspaper · Serial Part Two: This City's Fourth Relocation
This paper's History Desk continues the serial. The first part was about the moulting season; this part is about what follows the demolition of the old buildings — the cats' territory, the birds' routes and human self-respect all move house together.
Converted to this paper's calendar, the History Desk has lived in this city for twenty years. Over those twent……
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