Too much of it kills you.*
I think Terry Pratchett is the only author with the distinction of having his own shelf on my wall. I read Guards! Guards! when I was 11, the rest of the Disc soon followed, and I have re-read every single one of them I don’t know how many times.
I can think of few writers whose works are as full of wit and character.
* Small Gods
One of the jokes I really like is that the fantasies are drawn more realistically than reality, since that says a lot about what’s going on in Calvin’s head.
Bill Watterson in a rare interview, excerpt published in the Washington Post.
Model the spread of a zombie outbreak in the US with this handy tool. Settings available for bite/death ratio and zombie speed.
Spoiler alert: It would probably take longer than fiction would have us believe. Also, zombies aren’t real. But that hasn’t stopped me noting that my neighbour over the road has a katana/wakizashi pair in their front bedroom should I ever need to Michonne up.
Aerosol optical thickness of black and organic carbon (green), dust (red-orange), sulfates (white), and sea salt (blue)…also included are locations, indicated by red and yellow dots, of wildfires and human-initiated burning as detected by the MODIS instrument on NASA’s Terra and Aqua satellites.