Genie was born to deranged parents. Her father was extremely intolerant of loud noises and didn't want children, but he and his wife ended up having babies. Lots of them. Most of them died from child ...

She spat and clawed, and she couldn’t speak beyond uttering a handful of protective phrases like “stopit.”Carl Linnaeus, the formalizer of binomial nomenclature and the father of biological taxonomy, ...