The world’s population is expectedto increase from 7 billion in 2014 to 9 billion in 20502
- 97% of water on our Earth is saline water in oceans; only 3% can be counted as freshwater3
It was the only internal organ the Egyptians did not remove during mummification “so that the Goddess Ma’at might weigh it against the feather of truth in the afterlife and punish the heavy-hearted,” writes cultural historian Iain Gately.
It can be a pain. “Every time I reach for a new slide, I have to take my eyes off the lens and check the forms for that case,” says Ian Cree, professor of pathology at Warwick Medical School in Coventry, UK. “You can get a sore neck from hours at the microscope.”