Brad Roth·Mar 6Bob Park’s What’s New: March 6, 2026No, Bob Park — the physicist who wrote the What’s New newsletter for years — did not write this. Instead, I am imagining what Park would…
Brad Roth·Apr 19, 2025Lab LeakThe White House recently revised the covid.gov website into propaganda supporting the “lab leak” hypothesis for the source of Covid-19. I…A response icon1A response icon1
Brad Roth·Feb 16, 2025That’s what we’ve chosenOne of my favorite authors is David Quammen. Read his book “Spillover” about how new viral diseases arise, and “Breathless” about the Covid…
Brad Roth·Aug 23, 2024The Song of the DodoOne of my favorite science writers is David Quammen. I’ve discussed several of his books in this blog before, such as Breathless…
Brad Roth·May 19, 2023BreathlessWhenever David Quammen has a new book, I put it on my “to read” list. Recently I finished his latest: Breathless: The Scientific Race to…
Tardigrade·Apr 22, 2023The Heartbeat of the WildDispatches From Landscapes of Wonder, Peril, and Hope
Stuti Shiva·Mar 14, 2023The Plague 2019"And indeed , as he listened to the cries of joy rising from the town, Rieux remembered that such joy is always imperilled. He knew that…
Brad Roth·Sep 18, 2020Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human PandemicI recently read Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic, by David Quammen. This book was written eight years ago, but it…
Ramona Mead·Aug 16, 2020Author Interview With Betsy Gaines QuammenI’m thrilled to bring you this interview with my dear friend Betsy Gaines Quammen. Her first book, American Zion: Cliven Bundy, God, &…
Marisa Bayless·Aug 10, 2020SpilloverSpillover — Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen — Nonfiction (2012)
