“So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.” – Franklin Delano Roosevelt, “First Inaugural Address” As I have watched many of my fellow citizens, as well as others from all […]
By now you’ve likely read the report that Richard Preston’s best selling book The Hot Zone; the Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus is to be made into a major motion picture by director Ridley Scott. Ordinarily, given the fact that the disease is now front page news in the industrialized world, […]
An original Well-read Naturalist produced review of Spillover; Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen was published in the 21 October 2012 edition of The Oregonian newspaper and is now available for reading on Oregon Live, that newspaper’s website.