In “Witz,” a plague makes the last Jew on Earth a mega-celebrity
Jewish history features enough real apocalypses to daunt even the most powerful imagination. But that didn’t stop Joshua Cohen from producing Witz, a colossal novel about the last Jew on Earth. Benjamin Israelien, a Candide-like innocent, is the sole survivor of the extermination-by-plague of all the other Jews in the world at the turn of…
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The case of the mass honeybee killer has a new prime suspect
Thanks to a joint investigation from academics and the Department of Homeland Security, the culprit in the Case of the Honeybee Killer has been found. Over the last four years, 20 to 40 percent of the honeybee colonies in the U.S. have mysteriously collapsed. The killer has remained unknown—until now. A team of entomologists, along…
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Dan Nosowitz - Popular Science
