I was browsing through the December 1909 issue of McClure’s Magazine when I found A Child’s World – A Series of Pictures by Jessie Wilcox Smith. I always enjoy her illustrations and it was a pleasant surprise. There are only 5 illustrations – one shown in this post to entice you to follow the link to the others for the quick ‘book of the week.
A Child’s World (in 1909)
Continuing my look at Life Magazines on Internet Archive….
As I looked at the issues from 1948, I noticed more stories about booming business and industry that about the aftermath of World War II. Isreal was in the news…and Truman surprised the prognosticators by winning the election in November. Children were in the news struggling in a polio epidemic or left behind across the world by GI fathers or hungry/homeless in Europe. The Life pictures are windows into what the publishers (and a lot of other people) thought was newsworthy in 1948.
Life Magazine 1948-01-05 - Big whale kill in Faeroe Islands
Life Magazine 1948-01-12 - Coca-Cola advertisement (vending machine)
Life Magazine 1948-01-19 - As the Arabs fight from ambush, the Jews train regular army
Life Magazine 1948-01-26 - Fighting bighorn rams
Life Magazine 1948-02-02 - Palestine Jews crawl through cross fire
Life Magazine 1948-02-09 - The US runs short of oil
Life Magazine 1948-02-16 - Gandhi joins the Hindu immortals
Life Magazine 1948-02-23 - Timberline skiing
Life Magazine 1948-03-01 - Scio, Ohio rebuilding pottery plant
Life Magazine 1948-03-08 - Explosions kill Jews as Arabs defy the UN
Life Magazine 1948-03-08 - Sacred rivers receive Gandhi’s ashes
Life Magazine 1948-03-08 - The Brando’s – the brother and sister from Omaha
Life Magazine 1948-03-29 - Czechs flee their new red regime
Life Magazine 1948-04-05 - Ozark spring
Life Magazine 1948-04-12 - Cannon percale sheets
Life Magazine 1948-04-19 - Dishwasher advertisement
Life Magazine 1948-04-26 - Meteor Crater in Arizona
Life Magazine 1948-05-03 - Spring walk (garden)
Life Magazine 1948-05-10 - Jews score a preliminary victory
Life Magazine 1948-05-17 - Maine & Pennsylvania
Life Magazine 1948-05-24 - American Airlines advertisement
Life Magazine 1948-05-31 - Isreal is born in travail and hope
Life Magazine 1948-06-07 - Pennsylvania railroad advertisement
Life Magazine 1948-06-14 - Trademarks in nature and gasoline
Life Magazine 1948-06-21 - Hong Kong’s eastern tip – cemetery for World War II dead
Life Magazine 1948-06-28 - Western Europe wears a new look
Life Magazine 1948-07-05 - Oil breaks production records again
Life Magazine 1948-07-12 - Earthquake in Japan
Life Magazine 1948-07-19 - Fogging to kill insects (using helicopters)
Life Magazine 1948-07-26 - Chicago beach
Life Magazine 1948-08-02 - Black and white ranges of Peru
Life Magazine 1948-08-09 - Steel and sunflowers in Ukraine
Life Magazine 1948-08-16 - American abroad
Life Magazine 1948-08-23 - GI children left behind by their fathers from London to Tokyo
Life Magazine 1948-08-30 - Polio epidemic
Life Magazine 1948-09-06 - Madison, Wisconsin
Life Magazine 1948-09-13 - Airborne hospital
Life Magazine 1948-09-20 - Western Electric (telephone) advertisement
Life Magazine 1948-09-27 - Soviet prison camps
Life Magazine 1948-10-04 - Never has such a volume of goods been manufactured by a nation at peace
Life Magazine 1948-10-11 - Ritze crackers with cheese
Life Magazine 1948-10-18 - Yardley advertisement
Life Magazine 1948-10-25 - Earth photographed from rockets
Life Magazine 1948-11-01 - Rainwear
Life Magazine 1948-11-08 - Bees on the wing
Life Magazine 1948-11-15 - Truman wins!
Life Magazine 1948-11-22 - The US harvests a record corn crop
Life Magazine 1948-11-29 - Watchmakers of Switzerland advertisement
Life Magazine 1948-12-06 - Johnson and Johnson first aid advertisement
Life Magazine 1948-12-13 - Pennsylvania railroad holiday homecoming
Life Magazine 1948-12-20 - American Airlines “I’m closer to my grandchildren” ad
Life Magazine 1948-12-27 - Christmas finds many children of Europe in great need of help
Robert Louis Stephenson’s classic – A Child’s Garden of Verses – has been illustration many times. I recently browsed 6 that were published between 1895 and 1919 that are easily available on Project Gutenberg. Enjoy art associated with familiar poems! The links below show the artist and date and publication.
The week’s eBook was published in 1922…and has great illustrations of birds in flight created by Roland Green. The books is available on Internet Archive. Enjoy browsing!
Birds in flight by William Payne Pycraft and illustrated by Roland Green
Twenty more books were added to my botanical print eBook collection in June – all are available for browsing on Internet Archive. 16 of the books are a continuation of the Carnivorous Plant Newsletters; there are 4 volumes per year so this month includes 2013 to 2017; I’ll continue browsing this periodical in July. There were a few miscellaneous volumes at the beginning of the list – with a wide range of publication dates (1660 – 2001).
My list of eBotanical Prints books now totals 3,383 eBooks I’ve browsed over the years. The whole list can be accessed here.
Click on any sample image from June’s 20 books to get an enlarged version…and the title hyperlink in the list below the image mosaic to view the entire volume where there are a lot more botanical illustrations to browse.
Enjoy the June 2026 eBotanical Prints!
6 Maine Trees * Goodale, Rebecca * sample image * 2001
JARDIN DE RARES ET CURIEUX FLEURS FAICTES * Geest, Julius Francois de * sample image * 1660
Sketch book of flowers in watercolor * Dabney, Beatrice Penati Adams * sample image * 1960
Practical directions for learning flower-drawing. Illustrated by coloured drawings * Syme, Paterick * sample image * 1810
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.42:no.1 (2013) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2013
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.42:no.2 (2013) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2013
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.42:no.3 (2013) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2013
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.43:no.1 (2014) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2014
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.43:no.2 (2014) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2014
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.43:no.3 (2014) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2014
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.43:no.4 (2014) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2014
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.44:no.1 (2015) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2015
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.44:no.2 (2015) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2014
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.44:no.3 (2015) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2015
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.44:no.4 (2015) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2015
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.45:no.1 (2016) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2016
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.45:no.2 (2016) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2016
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.45:no.3 (2016) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2016
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.45:no.4 (2016) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2016
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.46:no.1 (2017) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2017
Project Gutenberg has the two Rootabaga books published by Carl Sandburg in the 1920s. Both books were illustrated by Maud and Miska Petersham. I remember hearing about these books when I visited Carl Sandburg’s last home in North Carolina with my daughter in 2003…but didn’t encounter them again until this year. Enjoy the text and the illustrations!
Earlier this year I enjoyed browsing Art Nouveau books (mostly illustrations) on Internet Archive. Today I am sharing 18 of them. I picked a sample image from each one to encourage you to follow the link and browse the whole volume. Enjoy!
Authentic Art Nouveau Stained Glass Designs
Art Nouveau Floral Patterns and Stencil Designs in Full Color
This week’s featured eBook is by Moses Harris and depicts English moths and butterflies – along with the plants on which they feed, their lifecycle changes, where to find their adult forms, and the common names in the mid-1700s. The author was an entomologist and engraver…and secretary to the Aurelian Society. The book was printed by the author!
The Aurelian: a natural history of English moths and butterflies
Twenty more books were added to my botanical print eBook collection in May – all are available for browsing on Internet Archive. 19 of the books are a continuation of the Carnivorous Plant Newsletters; there are 4 volumes per year so this month includes 2008 to 2012; I’ll continue browsing this periodical in June.
My list of eBotanical Prints books now totals 3,363 eBooks I’ve browsed over the years. The whole list can be accessed here.
Click on any sample image from May’s 20 books to get an enlarged version…and the title hyperlink in the list below the image mosaic to view the entire volume where there are a lot more botanical illustrations to browse.
Enjoy the May 2026 eBotanical Prints!
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.37:no.2 (2008) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2008
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.37:no.3 (2008) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2008
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.37:no.4 (2008) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2008
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.38:no.1 (2009) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2009
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.38:no.2 (2009) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2009
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.38:no.3 (2009) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2009
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.38:no.4 (2009) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2009
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.39:no.1 (2010) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2010
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.39:no.2 (2010) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2010
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.39:no.3 (2010) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2010
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.39:no.4 (2010) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2010
COLLECTIO PLANTARUM QUAE IN DIVERSIS EUROPAE, ASIAE, AFRICAE, ET AMERICAE * Morandi, Giambattistia * sample image * 1737
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.40:no.1 (2011) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2011
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.40:no.2 (2011) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2011
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.40:no.3 (2011) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2011
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.40:no.4 (2011) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2011
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.41:no.1 (2012) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2012
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.41:no.2 (2012) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2012
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.41:no.3 (2012) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2012
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.41:no.4 (2012) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2012
The Corcoran Gallery of Art hosted an exhibit of photography from the local camera club in April 1901…and the exhibition book is my pick for Book of the Week. The book is available on Internet Archive.
The year caught my attention since one of my grandfathers was born in 1901; he would have been 3 months old when this exhibition happened!
My favorite of the sample images is the icy fountain…with the US Capitol in the background.
Tenth annual exhibition of the Capital Camera Club: April 22d to 30th, 1901
In 2016, “Pergamon and the Hellenistic Kingdoms of the Ancient World” was an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The art book from the exhibition is available on Internet Archive. Browsing the pictures is a good way to get the gist of exhibition!
The book of the week is an exhibit catalog available on Internet Archive. It was published in 1930, and the Foreword says that all the artists except for one were alive at the time of the exhibit. The works were lent for six months and were shown in 5-6 cities – organized by the American Federation of Arts. This is Canadian art from before World War II and reflects the development of Canadian expression that began in 1910…in many cases going back to nature for inspiration.
This week’s eBook was published in 1921: Wonderwings and other Fairy Stories. The author was Edith Howes of New Zealand. The illustrations were created by Alicea Polson. It is available on Project Gutenberg. There are other books by Howes on Internet Archive; as I was looking at the Wikipedia entry for the author I decided to browse The Cradle Ship which was published in 1916 and became a minor landmark in sex education for children!
Twenty more books were added to my botanical print eBook collection in April – all are available for browsing on Internet Archive. 16 of the books are a continuation of the Carnivorous Plant Newsletters; there are 4 volumes per year so this month includes 2004 to 2008; I’ll continue browsing this periodical in May.
My list of eBotanical Prints books now totals 3,343 eBooks I’ve browsed over the years. The whole list can be accessed here.
Click on any sample image from April’s 20 books below to get an enlarged version…and the title hyperlink in the list below the image mosaic to view the entire volume where there are a lot more botanical illustrations to browse.
Enjoy the April 2026 eBotanical Prints!
Alpen-Flora für Touristen und Pflanzenfreunde * Hoffman, Julius; Friese, Hermann * sample image * 1904
Ocean flowers and their teachings * Howard, Mary Matilda * sample image * 1846
Algae and corallines of the bay & harbor of New York * Durant Charles Ferson * sample image * 1850
A popular history of British seaweeds : comprising their structure, fructification, specific characters, arrangement, and general distribution, with notices of some of the fresh-water algæ * Landsborough, David * sample image * 1857
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.33:no.2 (2004) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2004
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.33:no.3 (2004) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2004
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.33:no.4 (2004) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2004
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.34:no.1 (2005) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2005
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.34:no.2 (2005) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2005
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.34:no.3 (2005) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2005
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.34:no.4 (2005) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2005
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.35:no.1 (2006) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2006
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.35:no.2 (2006) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2006
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.35:no.3 (2006) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2006
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.35:no.4 (2006) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2006
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.36:no.1 (2007) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2007
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.36:no.2 (2007) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2007
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.36:no.3 (2007) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2007
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.36:no.4 (2007) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2007
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.37:no.1 (2008) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2008
Internet Archive has digitized versions of many Life Magazines. I have been browsing through them – slowly since there was an issue for each week. As I looked at the issues from 1947, I noticed the aftereffects of World War II – helping veterans, technology transitioning to civilian use (DDT, lipstick, atomic energy), hunger/wreckage/suffering in Europe and Japan, Farmers and factory worker were better off than they were before the war.
(Click on any of the sample images below to see a larger version and the links to see the whole magazine online.)
Life Magazine 1947-01-06, Niblets Mexicorn advertisement
Life Magazine 1947-01-13, Paraplegic’s home made to order
Life Magazine 1947-01-20, Farm lottery for veterans
Life Magazine 1947-01-27, 44 seat airliner takes off with 13 passengers
Life Magazine 1947-02-03, New factory a model for civilian production
Life Magazine 1947-02-10, Mexican’s carrying loads to market
Life Magazine 1947-02-17, Ice fog at Ladd Field near Fairbanks
Life Magazine 1947-02-24, Bridge in Washington collapses in gasoline fire
Life Magazine 1947-03-03, Trying to save Whooping cranes
Life Magazine 1947-03-10, Cathedral of Caen and surrounding rubble
Life Magazine 1947-03-17, Cars stranded at crossroads by Canadian snowstorm
Life Magazine 1947-03-24, Beyond the arctic circle
Life Magazine 1947-03-31, Moon over Manhattan
Life Magazine 1947-04-07, Harvest art
Life Magazine 1947-04-14, Triple eruption in Iceland
Life Magazine 1947-04-21, Henry Ford dies
Life Magazine 1947-04-28, Texas City blows up and burns (town on Galveston Bay)
Life Magazine 1947-05-05, Normandie scrapped
Life Magazine 1947-05-12, Dorothy Shaver, President of Lord & Tayler
Life Magazine 1947-05-19, Diesel locomotives
Life Magazine 1947-05-26, Patched pants
Life Magazine 1947-06-02, Truman Capote at 22
Life Magazine 1947-06-09, Mount Athabasca
Life Magazine 1947-06-16, Santa Fe System Lines in the west
Life Magazine 1947-06-23, Adams House
Life Magazine 1947-06-30, The Maya
Life Magazine 1947-07-07, Nebraska’s soil and sons
Life Magazine 1947-07-14, Painter’s summer in New England
Life Magazine 1947-07-21, German worker making tires….gaunt from lack of food
Life Magazine 1947-07-28, Elizabet and Philip growing up
Life Magazine 1947-08-04, Penicillin (Rexall drugs advertisement)
Life Magazine 1947-08-11, Bikini atomic bomb test
Life Magazine 1947-08-18, Harvesting machine patterns in Washington wheat fields
Life Magazine 1947-08-25, German widow grows food in rubble of her house
Life Magazine 1947-09-01, Keloids of a Hiroshima survivor
Life Magazine 1947-09-08, Havasu Falls of the Grand Canyon
Life Magazine 1947-09-15, Hybrid corn
Life Magazine 1947-09-22, Thoreau’s Walden
Life Magazine 1947-09-29, Hurricane that impact Florida, Mississippi and Louisiana
Life Magazine 1947-10-06, Moscow celebrates 800th birthday
Life Magazine 1947-10-13, Bongo the Bear from Disney
Life Magazine 1947-10-20, Lipstick – a big US industry
Life Magazine 1947-10-27, DDT used to fight cholera outbreak in Cairo
Life Magazine 1947-11-03, Bar Harbor burns
Life Magazine 1947-11-10, In spite of inflation, more Americans are better off than in ’39 (particularly farmers and factory workers)
Life Magazine 1947-11-17, Hughes’ flying boat (Spruce Goose)
Life Magazine 1947-11-24, Chinese flood land to stop Communist advance
Life Magazine 1947-12-01, Princess Elizabeth and Philip wedding
Life Magazine 1947-12-08, Biggest telescope (at the time) atop Palomar Mountain
Life Magazine 1947-12-15, Gadgets – post war inventions
Life Magazine 1947-12-22, Christmas Art
Life Magazine 1947-12-29, Eistein and Oppenheimer
The ‘book of the week’ is a catalog from a 1937-1938 art exhibit of Swedish art. It is available on Internet Archive.
The preface of the volume provides some context: The exhibit was “of Swedish decorative art for the United States of America in connection with the 300 years’ celebration of the first settlement of Delaware.” It “spans an extensive period of at least 8,000 years, from the Bone Age through the course of the ages to our present century.” “What we would wish to show is firstly and lastly the artistic evidence of a very long national history, to serve as a salutation on the occasion of the 300 years’ jubilee of our forefathers’ settlement in Delaware. We hope that the great American public will apprehend this exhibition as it is intended, namely, in the light of an invitation to step over the bridge of art into a closer contact with the Swedish nation, its history and spiritual atmosphere.”
Family of Man: the Greatest Photographic Exhibition of All Time - 503 Pictures from 68 Countries - Created by Edward Steichen for the Museum of Modern Art was published in 1955. The prologue is by Carl Sandburg. In the introduction Eward Steichen says they worked on the exhibit for almost 3 years and reviewed over 2 million photographs. The collection is interesting to look at now for the original reason the exhibit was created and from a historical perspective. What would be different if such an exhibit were produced today? The most obvious is that the photographs would be in color…but so much has changed in the world in the past 70 year. For example, I wonder if we have become less ‘ethnic’ less ‘religious’ – are we more likely to be obese – are some human faces so modified by treatment that they look artificial). The book is available on Internet Archive.
Twenty more books were added to my botanical print eBook collection in March – all are available for browsing on Internet Archive. I continued working my way through the Carnivorous Plant Newsletters; there are 4 volumes per year so I only browsed late 1999 to 2004 in March; I’ll continue browsing this periodical in April.
My list of eBotanical Prints books now totals 3,323 eBooks I’ve browsed over the years. The whole list can be accessed here.
Click on any sample image from March’s 20 books below to get an enlarged version…and the title hyperlink in the list below the image mosaic to view the entire volume where there are a lot more botanical illustrations to browse.
Enjoy the March 2026 eBotanical Prints!
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.28:no.2 (1999) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1999
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.28:no.3 (1999) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1999
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.28:no.4 (1999) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1999
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.29:no.1 (2000) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2000
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.29:no.2 (2000) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2000
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.29:no.3 (2000) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2000
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.29:no.4 (2000) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2000
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.30:no.1 (2001) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2001
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.30:no.2 (2001) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2001
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.30:no.3 (2001) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2001
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.30:no.4 (2001) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2001
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.31:no.1 (2002) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2002
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.31:no.2 (2002) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2002
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.31:no.3 (2002) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2002
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.31:no.4 (2002) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2002
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.32:no.1 (2003) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2003
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.32:no.2 (2003) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2003
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.32:no.3 (2003) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2003
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.32:no.4 (2003) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2003
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.33:no.1 (2004) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2004
The eBooks for this week are by Edna Groff Deihl published in 1924 and available on Project Gutenberg. She wrote books for children in the early decades of the 20th Century. She evidently produced the books based on stories she told her children. There is a picture of her with her 4 children in 1916 when she spoke to the Story Telling Club in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Enjoy!
The items below were ‘the cream’ of the articles and websites I found this past week. Click on the light green text to look at the article.
3/8/2026 Our World in Data What are the world’s deadliest animals, and can we protect ourselves against them? – Mosquitoes and snakes top the list! In many regions, deaths from mosquitoes have decreased dramatically. Malaria was once prevalent in countries that are now free of it. If we could achieve this in all parts of the world, the number of deaths caused by other animals would be almost six times smaller. If we were to also eliminate deaths from snakes with antivenoms and better diagnostics, the death toll would be again reduced by almost two-thirds.
3/8/2026 Science Daily Scientists stunned to find signs of ancient life in a place no one expected - Chemosynthetic microbes—organisms powered by chemical reactions—creating the mats in the dark depths of an ancient ocean.
2/24/2026 BBC 'It seemed to defy the laws of physics': The everlasting 'memory crystals' that could slash data center emissions -Silica and DNA are "very attractive from a sustainability perspective", acknowledges Tania Malik, assistant professor at the School of Informatics and Cybersecurity at Technological University Dublin in Ireland. "However, these technologies are unlikely to replace conventional storage for everyday computing or AI workloads anytime soon."
2/11/2026 The Scientist Oak Trees’ Drought Resilience is Rooted in Microbes - Oak trees maintained relatively stable microbial communities with subtle shifts in response to drought stress. They observed an increased abundance of Actinobacteriota, which are linked to drought tolerance, and other bacterial and fungal genera, suggesting that the oak trees can recruit beneficial organisms under stressful conditions. These changes could help researchers identify additional bacterial biomarkers as trees adapt to climate change.
3/9/2026 Compound Interest International Women’s Day: Twelve women from chemistry history – 12 women chemists from around the world.
3/8/2026 National Parks Traveler North Kaibab Trail at Grand Canyon National Park Seriously Damaged by Debris Flows - Debris flows in the wake of the Dragon Bravo fire at Grand Canyon National Park last year heavily damaged sections of the North Kaibab Trail, which will require some significant rebuilding in places this spring.
3/6/2026 Clean Technica It’s Time for an Authentic Golden Age of Agriculture - Contemporary industrial agriculture is less about producing food and more about generating animal feed, biofuels, and industrial ingredients for processed food products. Frank Carini of ecoRINews argues that producing more local food requires a series of changes. He offers a series of steps:
Stop taking farmland out of production;
Provide better financial support to local and regional farmers;
Increase funding for federal extension services;
Approve more bond money for farmland protection;
Attract young farmers to the profession;
Make farmland affordable; and,
Use the land we do have with our future in mind.
3/6/2026 Planetizen Hundreds of Vacant NYC Public Housing Units ‘Taken Over’ by Squatters –Vacancies often result from the need to make extensive renovations before units can be leased out when a prior tenant leaves. That frequently includes costly lead paint and asbestos abatement—required by local law and under NYCHA’s federal monitorship—work which takes an average of four to six months to complete, officials have said. In general, it takes the housing authority an average of 326 days to “turnaround” a vacant apartment for new occupancy, according to the most recent public data.
3/5/2026 Smithsonian Magazine See the New U.S. Postage Stamp Honoring the Bison, America’s National Mammal – A stamp within a stamp design.
3/4/2026 The Conversation Pollution, noise and climate stress all pose a serious threat to heart health - In an unprecedented collaboration, the European Society of Cardiology, the American College of Cardiology, the American Heart Association and the World Heart Federation have issued a joint statement calling for immediate action against environmental stressors – pollution, noise, climate stress – to reduce cardiovascular mortality. The question is no longer whether pollution causes cardiovascular disease, but how much additional harm we are willing to accept knowing that it is, to a large extent, preventable.
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