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The overseas area under U.S. jurisdiction contained some 135 million people. That was, remarkably, more than the 132 million who inhabited the mainland. In other words, if you looked up at the end of 1945 and saw a U.S. flag overhead, odds are that you weren’t seeing it because you lived in a state.

How to Hide an Empire

Daniel Immerwahr

The exoskeletons of early invertebrates became internal in bones and spines, and then, much later, “human populations began mineralizing again when they developed an urban exoskeleton.”

Deep Time Sickness | NOEMA

noemamag.com

We found that there were two to three per cent more crashes within one to 10 kilometres downstream of each DMS during the week fatality messages were shown.

Roadside Safety Messages Increase Crashes by Distracting Drivers

Jonathan Hall and University of Toronto

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