Click Here to Read: Do civilisations collapse? The idea that the Maya or Easter Islanders experienced an apocalyptic end makes for good television but bad archaeology by Guy D Middleton on the Aeon website.
Ahu Tongariki, the largest platform and collection of Moai ever erected on Rapa Nui (Eastern Island). Image: Bradenfox. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Click Here to Read: Polio’s Jewish History: How a community was affected by the epidemic—and by the scientists who discovered the vaccine by Jenna Weissman Joselit on the Tablet website on April 29, 2020.
Vaccination Record – description – Hebrew, Arabic and English Image: Bolter21. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
Click Here to Read: How the Italians Lost Track of Machiavelli Just When They Needed Him Journal of a Plague: When it comes to disease, sometimes the enemy has to be at the gates, or even inside them, before the Behavioral Immune System will start to mount a defense by Norman Doidge on the Tablet website on April 24, 2020.
Map of the 2019-nCoV outbreak in Italy as of March 5, 2020. Image: Night Lantern. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
