Why You Should Be Grateful For Cockroaches and Russian Knife Sharpeners

Not a metaphor. Also, very important.

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I’ll start with the cockroaches.

In college, I worked in an entomology lab. It was in a one-story brick building with one long hallway and about twenty locked doors on either side of the hall. In the rooms were insects and experiments. Not just a few insects…