How did it get to be September already? Always being an optimist, I still want to say that there’s still a lot of summer left, as there usually is in September. But it won’t be too much longer until we’re all forced into admitting its autumn. This doesn’t mean you’ve got

Animals fatally maul, sting, trample, and chew about a million humans per year. Pretty nice of them, given the numbers on our side—the average of 750 million chickens we kill in the U.S. every month, for instance. In an ideal world, no one would ever get mauled by a bear,