Tag: epidemiology
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Miasma
Bad air. Malaria. We fear what lurks in the dark, in the creeping tendrils of fog, hiding in plain sight… We humans used to flee the cities in summer, to get away from the bad air. Sicknesses ran rampant in the warmest times. In the times when the fog lifted off the river and ports and…
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Paleomicrobiology and Other Interests
So every now and then I run across a book I would really love to read, but cannot bring myself to justify buying – not even in the name of research. Paleomicrobiology of Humans is one such. (You can read a detailed review of it here, if you’re interested) It’s a fascinating concept, and although it’s not…
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Fraidy Friday
Ok, so I owe you all a book review. Well, I haven’t read anything this week. Ok, I lie. I did read, lots, but no whole books. School work had rolled over me like Hokusai’s Wave, and I opened the kindle a few times, read the opening chapter of Peter Grant’s Adapt and Overcome (good…
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That Which Befalls People
I wrote about Bad Science over at Mad Genius Club, if you’re interested in researching and writing good hard science fiction you may want to wander over there. Here, I’m going to be brief. I’m studying Epidemiology this semester, or the study of that which befalls people. And really, as an author, I do that…