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.)
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