TIL: The international moratorium on commercial whaling is only about as old as I am. The linked article is an interesting description of that slice of history, with application to transitioning away from petroleum as the world previously transitioned away from whale blubber.
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The 1918 flu didn’t end in 1918. Here’s what its third year can teach us. Archived from the original.

Aside from doing what it says on the tin, archive.today is currently a handy way to circumvent paywalls on several news sites. Their operational (rather than front-page) URL jumps around periodically as a result. So if the archival link stops working, searching for the source address from the archive.today main page should still bring it up.
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