Issue 2: Pangolins and Poverty

Reflections on back-row America, a radical theory of physics, and much more.

Beautiful fact

Tucked away in a pouch near its last pair of ribs, the scale-covered pangolin wields a tongue longer than its body, which it uses to gulp down up to 20,000 ants a day.

The pangolin has the face, as writer Katherine Rundell put it, “of an unusually polite academic.”

(The next issue’s title won’t have alliterative P words, I promise.)