What would the world be, once bereft of wet and wildness?
Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet;
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.
-- Gerard Manley Hopkins
Sunday, April 02, 2006
'If it hasn't killed him, just give him some more'
Amazing story about a man in Australia bitten by a deadly funnel-web spider. The guy managed to receive an antidote in time--one which had just been approved for manufacture and clinical trial a month prior.
