liar in the glass

In his mid-forties, surveying his many 'paper books', the English polymath Francis Bacon found that he had no fewer than twenty-eight in use at once, including a common-place book, a zibaldone-style collection of excerpts, nine notebooks for different areas of the law, and others for his household accounts and philosophical and scientific inquiries.

TIL the reason you don’t find much Lyme’s Disease in California is not because we don’t have Ticks, or Lyme Disease Vectors; but rather: because the Western Fence Lizard (if you live anywhere in California this is your regular Garden Variety Lizard) has adapted a passive immune response that makes their blood lethal to Lyme Disease Bacteria. Any Tick that feeds on one gets its gut cleansed of Lyme Disease as a side effect.