Food, Sex and Salmonella

The Ancient Roots of “Sewer Socialism”

This Pacific Island Disappeared Under Rising Seas. A New Sculpture Marking the Spot Will Morph Into a Home for Seabirds, Coral and Marine Life

Remembering Troy

Catnip lotion as effective as Deet at repelling mosquitoes, study finds

William Carlos Williams for the Animals (Also: Cute?)

Cruise Ship Epidemiology!

Lovely Scams

Hantavirus (from my book On Pandemics, Greystone Press, 2020; see https://greystonebooks.com/products/on-pandemics) Splashing Through Rat piss, which talks about leptospirosis and diseases caused by h...

Poets Resist: David Waltner-Toews + New & Selected Poems – Alllitup.ca

David Malouf, Laura Kroetsch, and Adelaide

Who belongs in the city? Baboons, and the boundaries of urban life in Cape Town

We are all Spectators. What do we do?

Honeybees and Distant Thunder

Taking Stock: Unnatural flu

Sisyphus and Red Diaper Babies

Japanese Review of On Pandemics

Flags & Faith

TET: Thành Chuong

Nipah Virus January 2026

California joins UN health network following US departure from WHO

Into the abyss

Dogs with a large vocabulary of object labels learn new labels by overhearing like 1.5-year-old infants

Cells Use ‘Bioelectricity’ To Coordinate and Make Group Decisions | Quanta Magazine

Changing the universe

As birthrates tumble, some progressives say the left needs to offer ideas and solutions

The Time When New York City Seriously Considered Seceding From the United States

A sense of Loss

Hanukkah and the Winter Solstice | My Jewish Learning