Monthly Archives: February 2018

If you would like to listen to this blog rather than reading it , please click on this link! The numbers that describe the human microbiome are overwhelming. There are between three and ten times more bacterial cells in and … Continue reading →

If you would like to listen to this blog rather than reading it, please click on this link. Starting tomorrow (February 16th) and running until Monday (February 19) the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, Birds Studies Canada and the National Audubon … Continue reading →

If you would like to listen to this blog rather than reading it, please click on this link!) Parasites and pathogens often have very obvious effects on the their hosts. Some parasites (like tapeworms, for example) basically steal a percentage … Continue reading →

Five years ago I wrote about Groundhog Day and suggested that we change this early February day-of-prediction to focus not on an animal that is sound asleep in his grass-lined burrow dreaming of gardens to ravage, but rather on an … Continue reading →