Her Majesty’s Rat-Catcher…
Biblical Egypt had its plague of locusts, modern New York City is terrorized by bedbugs, and Victorian London had a serious rat problem. Rats scurried around the city chewing up food, clogging up...
View Article“The fact is that no species has ever had such wholesale control over...
From the always-amazing Randall Munroe, who reminds us that bacteria still outweigh us thousands to one– and that’s not counting the pounds of them in each of our bodies… * “The fact is that no...
View Article“A map is the greatest of all epic poems”*…
A marmot hiding in plain sight in the Swiss Alps Errors—both accidental and deliberate—are not uncommon in maps (17th-century California as an island, the omission of Seattle in a 1960s AAA map)....
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