Author

Ian Randal Strock

Ian Randal Strock (IanRandalStrock.com) is the publisher of Gray Rabbit Publications/Fantastic Books, and thinks of himself as a science fiction author, even though 98% of his published words have been nonfiction. He is the author of "The Presidential Book of Lists" (Random House, 2008), "Ranking the First Ladies" (Carrel Books, 2016), and "Ranking the Vice Presidents" (Carrel Books, 2016). His fiction has appeared in Nature, Analog (from which he won two AnLab Awards), and several recent anthologies.

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The Ant and the Grasshoppers

The history of human achievement is the history of saying "if only we had known." If only we had known DDT is dangerous to mammals. If only we had known asbestos causes lung cancer. If only we had known lead is a neurotoxin. But now I've been living the opposite. If only I had…