Guest Thinkers — October 29, 2010

Cobra and Mongoose Miscellany

A weekly newsletter featuring the biggest ideas from the smartest people

-The Central Park Zoo welcomes baby mongooses. (Yes, that is the correct plural.)

-Great moments in occupational health and safety: London, 1852, the Head Keeper in the Serpent Room at the London Zoo handles a cobra in a “less than sensible manner,” makes medical history.

A weekly newsletter featuring the biggest ideas from the smartest people

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