YOU'RE DOING IT AGAIN
I’m watching doctors, nurses, and epidemiologists, as well as science communicators and folks in the news business, offer flatly wrong, wildly misleading, or just seriously outdated information about hantavirus and the outbreak cluster they are struggling to contain. So many, certainly all serious professionals responding seriously, are not even up to date or aligned with the most basic public information sheet from the CDC "About Hantavirus", for example, or with what the WH
10 hours ago2 min read
THE MODERN NORSE SAGA or REFUSING TO ADMIT WHAT WE ALREADY KNOW
When attempting to write about the city of Victoria I couldn’t help but delve into the history of the place. Doing so inevitably resulted in diving into the details about who arrived here and from where they came, something far more messy and complicated than you might imagine. Then, far enough down the road into discussion of ships from Spain and Russia (with crews from Asia, Oceana, the Americas, and Africa) plying the west coast of North America, it seemed worth mentioning
3 days ago12 min read
