Published on: 2025-06-13 22:44:14
Photo by Mike van Schoonderwalt (and I must stress that this is NOT a photo of me) I have a very extensive CV. You could even call it ‘unwieldy’. It’s actually one of the reasons I am and remain self-employed; the very notion of having to condense that down into one or two pages of A4 makes me break out in a cold sweat. But among the many things I can claim to be on paper, I am, first and foremost, a Dad. Which means that, if and when I think of an absolutely terrible joke (which is very often
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The United States has, for 70 years, been fighting a continuous aerial war against the New World screwworm, a parasite that eats animals alive: cow, pig, deer, dog, even human. (Its scientific name, C. hominivorax, translates to “man-eater.”) Larvae of the parasitic fly chew through flesh, transforming small nicks into big, gruesome wounds. But in the 1950s, the U.S. Department of Agriculture laid the groundwork for a continent-wide assault. Workers raised screwworms in factories, blasted them w
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We're on the verge of being screwwormed. The biological barrier was breached, they're slithering toward our border, and the US Department of Agriculture is now carpet-bombing parts of Mexico with weaponized flies to stave off an invasion. This is not a drill. Screwworms are possibly the most aptly named parasites imaginable, both literally and figuratively. Screwworms—technically, New World Screwworms—are flies that lay eggs on the mucous membranes, orifices, and wounds of warm-blooded animals
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Regardless of the state of the world—whether you're staring down a Constitutional crisis or enjoying happier times, at ease on a beach—it's wise to remember that there will always be tiny worms with gaping mouths ringed by razor-sharp teeth ready to pierce your body, burrow into your skin, and tunnel through your flesh like an ambitious gopher in springtime. I'm referring, of course, to hookworms, the blood-feeding parasites aptly named for the hook-like heads they use to latch onto their victi
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