Subvisible Thoughts: Rewriting the War on Microbes

The auditorium was dark and air-conditioned. As lectures on yeast, HIV, and tuberculosis floated over my head, I scribbled notes in three languages: original Portuguese, translated English, and vocabulary I made up to lasso my thoughts onto paper. Words like subvisible,...

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Beautiful Selections: 150 Birds of Pantanal and Cerrado

Birds of Brazil, part two! My urge toward phylogenetic fairness pulled me to post about amphibians, insects or, best of all, bacteria... but the overwhelming photogenicity of the avifauna got the best of me. That, and I gotta give the people what they want. My first Brazilian...

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