Quote of the day
I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again … the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.
Alfred W. Crosby

Born: January 15, 1931
Died: March 14, 2018 (aged 87)
Bio: Alfred W. Crosby Jr. was a Professor Emeritus of History, Geography, and American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He was the author of such books as The Columbian Exchange and Ecological Imperialism.
Known for:
- The Columbian Exchange (1972)
- America's forgotten pandemic (1976)
- The measure of reality (1996)
- Children of the sun (2006)






