Tag: epidemiology

  • Pandemic on the Easy Setting

    Pandemic on the Easy Setting

      I keep telling people that this whole Covid-19 thing is pandemic on the easy setting. I’ve been interested in infectious diseases for a very long time, and frankly we have been overdue for a pandemic in this era of global travel for quite some time now. That it has been so mild and non-lethal…

  • Miasma

    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…

  • Paleomicrobiology and Other Interests

    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…

  • Math and Academic papers

    Math and Academic papers

    I have a pre-calculus exam in the late morning, and a take-home Epidemiology exam to turn in this evening. Other than explaining the rules of logarithms and exponents to you all, which I’m pretty sure no one wants to hear (at least not on my blog) I can’t think what to say. I did run…

  • Fraidy Friday

    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…

  • That Which Befalls People

    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…