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Post by Nathan Smith This post is linked to this book project, see Googledocs version here. I argued in a recent post that “the modern borders regime was designed to secure international peace,” and since, in fact, the post-WWII...

The story of how “Patient Zero” and AIDS arrived in New York in 1979 and triggered the epidemic in North America has been told so many times in so many different ways that for many people it’s become an accepted truth of our modern history. It begins...

A new study from the National Cockroach Project at Rockefeller University has confirmed that cockroaches tend to stay in the neighborhoods they were born, and divide themselves by ethnic group and class. In other words, they are as sad and intolerant...

The American cockroach, Periplaneta americana. (cc) Photo by Gary Alpert American cockroaches are some of the nastiest bugs found in the United States. Every state has some area that is infested with these diseases carrying bugs, including California...

Here’s a year-end tiny collection comprising a cow and lots of cockroaches. The cow is mechanical, caught here on video (Thanks to Rachel Ehrenberg for bringing it to our attention): The University of California supplies this description: Cow...