Sweating has a poor reputation, being treated as an embarrassment to be suppressed with products. It is, biologically, one of the more remarkable things about the human body, and among…
Maya Linton
A scar is usually read as a failure: the body tried to put the skin back and did not quite manage it. That is not what happened. Scarring is the…
A beetle's back does not look like wings. It looks like a shell, hard and glossy, split down the middle by a straight seam. That seam is the clue. The…
Almost everyone pictures an anchor as a heavy thing dropped on the bottom, holding a boat by sheer mass. If that were how it worked, no ship could carry an…
There is moss on the wall outside, on the north face of a gravestone, in the gaps between paving slabs, along the damp side of a tree. It looks like…
Nearly everyone learns that a rainbow is sunlight split into colours by raindrops, which is true and which explains almost none of the things that are actually strange about rainbows.…