Arsenic in the stacks; fruits and veggies have lost their potency
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| | The most dangerous books in the library are not from Toni Morrison, Ayn Rand, or Judy Blume. They are not parables about penguins or Holocaust-era mice.
The most dangerous books are dusty, emerald-green volumes with traces of arsenic on the cover and often in illustrations inside. People who handle them frequently, such as librarians or researchers, may accidentally inhale or ingest the poisoned particles.
“There could be thousands of these books around the world,” says Melissa Tedone, of Delaware’s Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, who has launched an effort dubbed the Poison Book Project to locate and catalogue these noxious volumes.
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PHOTOGRAPHS BY GABRIELA PORTILHO | | Stronger together: Paula Nunes, left, and Silvia Ferraro are two of five women who share a council seat since they were elected in 2020 as part of a political collective called Bancada Feminista in Brazil. Political collectives put one member’s name on the ballot but campaign—and serve their constituents—as a group. Though not formally recognized by the government, power-sharing political seats are part of a growing trend to broaden the scope of representation and increase the number of female and minority office holders, Nat Geo reports.
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 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY ALBERT MOLDVAY | | The melting pot: Nat Geo often has covered the vibrant culture of New York, from its precolonial era to Jordan Salama’s story last month on Queens: “The World’s Borough.” The image above, of typesetters preparing pages for a daily Chinese newspaper, comes from a story in the July 1964 issue, coinciding with the city’s hosting of the World’s Fair.
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 | | WARPEDGALERIE/ALAMY/ACI | | Full metal jacket: In the medieval age, knights were often seen like the superheroes of today, Nat Geo History magazine reports. (Pictured above, a knight’s plate armor consisted of riveted sections, which offered greater freedom of movement than rigid armor.)
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