Reading Time: 14 minutesWhat if I were to tell you that plagues, through time, were caused by comets and meteor strikes? You’d probably want to gently whisper about black rats, fleas and bacteria. And, suggest that ideas associating plagues with comets were the fanciful fears of prehistoric ancient peoples and medieval peasants. Yet, it appears that our ancestors’ […]
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Contagion: Lively Dust, Us and Disease
Reading Time: 13 minutesWhat if we were to return to old ideas about health and disease? Would we find ourselves in a better place? If we wind back the clock, we’d be less concerned about contagion, germs and variants. We’d realise that disease is largely controlled by our environment, the weather, atmosphere, poisons we ingest, and our state […]
