Archive for the 'disease' Category

Great article about how the cure to scurvy was discovered, lost and rediscovered.

"The arrival of colonial cities in sub-Saharan Africa at the dawn of the 20th Century may have sparked the spread of HIV."

"I asked her why she hadn’t warned me about the wasps. 'I’m not that kind of angel,' she said." In anticipation of Chris Adrian's appearance at the Housing Works Bookstore Café on Nov. 3rd.

Much better than the National Institutes of Health image archive.

Interesting, sort of light read on the current crisis facing pollination-based agribusiness - and everything else that needs pollination, in one way or another, to survive in the U.S.