
In This Issue
What would you give up for a second chance? In this issue sociologist Joseph Klett writes about tattoos and what their wearers will do to get rid of them. Join sociologist Ramya Rajagopalan as she takes us on the bloody journey of a rat poison turned medicine. Then find out how art connects two British luminaries: Nobel laureate Dorothy Hodgkin and Winston Churchill. And finally, take the oldest book in your library, open it, and sniff before reading about the people who smell books.

Five Things We Learned in This Issue
To reduce methane emissions Argentinian scientists tried fitting cows with special backpacks to vacuum up their burps.
Josiah Wedgwood, namesake of the famous cream-and-blue pottery, built one of the world’s first factories.
Aspirin, one of the most widely used drugs, was nearly lost in Bayer’s rush to bring heroin to market.
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