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Five Tips to A Healthy Pregnancy—the Renaissance Way

For some reason, I’ve been going to a lot of baby showers recently–I have another one Monday night. It’s fascinating to see all the new-fangled baby contraptions available these days, and to learn what has gone in and out and… Read More

Slithery Slope

One warm spring day back when I was about fourteen, I was casually dandling my fishing line into the shallow water on a bank of Lake Champlain. I was with my older sister and her friend, who were off kayaking… Read More

Wiggle Room

In 19th-century London, water companies made no effort to filter the drinking water pumped in from the Thames. On several occasions, live eels came wriggling out of people’s faucets.   source: Liza Picard, Victorian London: The Life of a City… Read More