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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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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In a large 3-panel comic from the series Grand Ballroom of Doom by Jacob Chris Hammes, a man takes his CPR instructions a little too literally.
 
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