You’re in good company. Tom Standage makes the same argument in his book A History of the World in Six Glasses.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3872.A_History_of_the_Wo...

Nathan Mayer Rothschild probably died of staphylococcal or streptococcal septicaemia, either from the abscess or secondary contamination from the surgeon’s knife. Today that infection would almost certainly be cured with standard antibiotics.

No offence intended but wavefunction is very low-quality.

Apple has an active team editing OpenStreetMap and their maps use OSM data in many countries. I see them making edits in my country regularly (they tag changesets with “#adt” so they’re quite visible). More info on the OSM wiki and their GitHub repo:

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Apple

https://github.com/osmlab/appledata/

I came here to say the same thing. Opening a new issue of The New York Review of Books or the London Review of Books are two of the great pleasures in life.

https://lrb.co.uk/ https://www.nybooks.com/

The Digital Antiquarian had a thoroughly interesting article on Chris Sawyer and his work not too long ago:

https://www.filfre.net/2020/10/transport-tycoon/