Month: December 2025

A swimming pool is never just water. It’s a heavily managed aquatic ecosystem, held in precarious balance by chemistry, cultural norms, and care. Without treatment, pools explode with algae, bacteria, protozoa, and fungi, not to mention insects. Chlorination, the standard treatment worldwide, reshapes that multispecies world: it kills off some life forms while allowing chlorine-resistant […]

Between 1939 and 1945, the Nazis murdered nearly 300,000 disabled people: in gas chambers, by poison or overdose, or simply by leaving them to starve (Herzog 2025, 1). Epileptics, wheelchair users, the mentally ill, and the intellectually disabled were targeted. But what mattered most was whether a person could work. Those who were killed were […]