book review on Explorers; the Royal Geographical Society’s introduction to the adventurers who first opened the door on remote places, with links to the RGS, Palin and Fiennes home pages
Fever reviewed
December 12, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Tweet Fever. How malaria has ruled humankind for 500,000 years. Sonia Shah. Allen & Unwin. Australia 2010. ISBN 978 1 74237 048 4 If you want to read a book on malaria critically, there can’t be a better way than at bedtime sweating under the protection of a mosquito net. I was overseas, germ hunting again [...]
The whole gnome
November 14, 2010 By 1 Comment
Draft genomes for 15 bacteria from the genus Burkholderia, and the legend of the micrognome
Worth fighting for?
September 25, 2010 By 3 Comments
Apart from the memorials, the quiet fields of Western Pennsylvania bear little evidence of the monumental struggle that swept over this landscape from 1st to 3rd July, 1863. The battle of Gettysburg was a key turning point in the American Civil War, and came to be recognised as the high point of the Confederate army’s fortunes.
The bitter end
September 8, 2010 By 1 Comment
Micrognome footloose in the land of the free, with coverange of the American Natural History Museum, Ellis Island and Ground Zero.
