Plus, how bad was the cancer rate in pre-industrial Britain?
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| | Often America bulldozes the sites of its ugliest history. But the poems saved Angel Island from demolition.
A park ranger found the poems (above) written on the walls of the onetime refugee and migrant entryway. But Angel Island also was a mass detention center, particularly for tens of thousands of people from China or Japan. What happened on this island in San Francisco harbor? And how has America learned? | | | |
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| | | The Ellis Island of the West Coast? That’s a sanitized moniker for the immigration center in San Francisco harbor (pictured in 1916). Unlike its New York counterpart, a prime function of Angel Island was to thwart Asian migrants from reaching the U.S. mainland. It is now a National Historic Landmark. Read more. | | | |
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 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY DAVID LIITTSCHWAGER | | Count them all: To mark today’s International Day of Biological Diversity, we looked at the different types of critters that can be found in a small amount of soil. You tell us: this photo used what quantity of soil to find all these organisms?
A. A bucketful
B. A cubic foot
C. A cubic yard
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 | | ART VIA WERNER FORMAN ARCHIVE, BRIDGEMAN IMAGES | | Cancer-free? In a pre-industrial Britain—before tobacco and factories—the cancer rate was estimated at 1 percent. But according to new research, that number may have been a gross miscalculation. (Above, a painting depicting medieval disease: infection, malnutrition, and warfare injuries.)
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 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY FRANS LANTING, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION | | Float on: How did Madagascar’s animals (like the aye-aye above) get to the island? Giant rafts of vegetation from Africa’s mainland, it looks like. Researchers compared genetic data from modern Malagasy species with the fossil record of their ancestors from the mainland.
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We asked, you answered: Even seasoned swimmers reading our story on fast death in cold lakes hadn’t understood the sudden speed of “cold shock.” Reader and former lifeguard Katie Schwartz said the article “gave me information I didn't know”—and now she’s a vocal supporter of life vests for everyone on chilly lakes.
Today’s soundtrack: So We Won’t Forget, Khruangbin
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