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Brewer's: Caora

A river, on the banks of which are a people whose heads grow beneath their shoulders. Their eyes are in their shoulders, and their mouths in the middle of their breasts. (Hakluyt: Voyages…

Food-Borne Diseases: Listeria

ListeriaFood-Borne DiseasesIntroductionE. coli 0157:H7CamphylobacterSalmonellaShigellaListeriaTrichinosis Doctors and epidemiologists often overlook Listeria, another food-borne bacterium, as a…

Carnivorous Plants

Flipping the food chain Venus's flytrap   Most carnivorous plants eat flying, foraging, or crawling insects. Those that live in or around water capture very small aquatic prey like mosquito…

The Hungry Stones: The Home-Coming

by Rabindranath Tagore Once There Was a KingMy Lord, the BabyThe Home-Coming Phatik Chakravorti was ringleader among the boys of the village. A new mischief got into his head. There…