June 17, 2020 by
How mosquitoes have shaped human history, time out for a different predator

Naveena reviews Timothy C. Winegard’s book “The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator,” which explains how mosquitos have affected both health and history.

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June 5, 2020 by
Tuberculosis, rampant in the Romantic era, personified as the feminine ideal
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Art exploited as propaganda after outbreak of bubonic plague in Jaffa in 1799

In the second post in a new series, “Art Following Epidemics,” Andrea Kirsh explores a propaganda painting commissioned by Napoleon during the bubonic plague.

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4 panel comic from the satirical series "Grand Ballroom of Doom," in which three people-- one woman with shoulder-length hair wearing glasses, a bald man wearing glasses, and a man with short curly hair-- stand together chatting. Another man, with short black hair, stands nearby. The man and woman with glasses and the man with curly hair complain about how busy they are; the man with short black hair says he has time, and the group of three busy people are horrified.
 
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