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🧐 Have you ever heard of the “great shipworm epidemic” that ravaged European ships?
If not, then we suggest you read what Amedeo Policante published in The Sociological Review Foundation's magazine.
This ‘worm’, which is actually a bivalve mollusc, has been a headache for global shipping companies and, more recently, for the maintenance of submarine cables, on which we are highly dependent.
https://thesociologicalreview.org/magazine/october-2024/the-sea/boring-stories/
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