Link: A hookworm history in mining
I’ve been doing a bit of reading about hookworm infection for an essay, and I happened across a piece by Rebecca Kreston from Discover’s “Body Horrors” a few...
I’ve been doing a bit of reading about hookworm infection for an essay, and I happened across a piece by Rebecca Kreston from Discover’s “Body Horrors” a few...
From Plagues and Peoples by William H. McNeill, a passage synthesizing the role of endemic parasites in weakening entire populations:
Carl Zimmer reported this week in the New York Times on research into the natural history of bedbugs in Europe: “In Bedbugs, Scientists See a Model of Evolu...
The new online publication Vox is running an explainer about the species of face mites that live in your skin: “These mites live on your face and come out to...
My University of Wisconsin-Madison colleague Tony Goldberg has a new paper doing some innovative ecological genetics: “UW scientist sniffs out possible new t...
A new paper examines the parasite load of a group of wild chimpanzees for Plasmodium, the parasite that causes malaria DeNys:2013. Several strains of Plasmod...
Robin Ann Smith contributed a guest post to Scientific American, titled “The worms within”. The main idea is that the immune system evolved to deal with para...
USA Today says, “Let the bedbugs bite.”
Malaria in humans is caused by one of five different species of Plasmodium parasites. The deadliest of these is P. falciparum, especially within Africa where...
When I used to think about the 21st century, I didn’t expect they’d be telling me to go easy on the head lice.
Not a lot of detail in this story, but it's an interesting datum:
At the moment, our yard here has many more butterflies than the "butterfly garden" at the zoo. That's mostly attributable to the zoo's complete lack of milk...
I let this story pass by last week, but I can't resist the version with the excellent headline: