They don’t have an internal thermostat like mammals do. The myth goes something like this: if you put a frog in a pot of boiling water, it will do its darndest to get out. But if you put a frog in a ...

Back in the 1930s, over in Sweden, my father joined a “patriotic” sports club. It turned out to be a front for a Nazi militia. He quit, and eventually emigrated ...