David Quammen's Blog
July 17, 2012
forthcoming
I'm just back from a couple of lecture trips, one of which (to Ottawa) involved accepting the Stephen Jay Gould Award from the Society for the Study of Evolution, and doing the Gould Lecture there to an audience of 2,000. The nice thing about lecturing to a big audience, in contrast to a small one, is that when it's 2,000 folks you know that SOMEBODY out there will laugh at the jokes.
Now I'm busy with the ongoing chores in preparation for publication of my new book, "Spillover," in October. The magazine Popular Science will be publishing an excerpt in advance, and this week's chore is to pull that into concise, coherent shape. The book is about emerging diseases--where they emerge from (mostly wildlife), what causes them (mostly RNA viruses), and how they get into humans. The excerpt will be focused on Marburg, which is a cousin of Ebola. Gruesome stuff but scientifically fascinating.
Now I'm busy with the ongoing chores in preparation for publication of my new book, "Spillover," in October. The magazine Popular Science will be publishing an excerpt in advance, and this week's chore is to pull that into concise, coherent shape. The book is about emerging diseases--where they emerge from (mostly wildlife), what causes them (mostly RNA viruses), and how they get into humans. The excerpt will be focused on Marburg, which is a cousin of Ebola. Gruesome stuff but scientifically fascinating.
