Yesterday I drove to Ithaca, New York, where I met up with Mary Smith, Professor of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell University. Cornell’s College of Veterinary Medicine maintains a poisonous plants garden, which makes sense, if you think about it. Veterinary … Read More
According to entomologist John Maunder, the move towards low-temperature detergents means more bugs can proliferate. Says Maunder, “If you wash lousy clothing at low temperatures, all you get is cleaner lice.”
Source: Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything