When Summer Never Came: The Global Chill After Mount Tambora’s Cataclysm
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Being a male jumping spider is not walk in the park. When mating time comes around, it is the duty of the male jumping spider to impress the female no matter what it takes. The male is expected to create vibrations that the female spider will actually be able to detect with her legs. That’s a pretty tall order for a tiny spider! In addition to that, he needs to look pretty good, too. If, for whatever reason, the female dislikes a potential suitor, she can simply eat him and there’s not a whole lot he can do about it.
In 1816, much of the world experienced a year so strange and unsettling that…
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In the rolling hills of Bath County, Kentucky, an ordinary spring day in 1876…
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