Biological Warfare

Is intelligence intelligent? This is the question that runs or, rather, leaps through the mind of the reader struggling with Christopher Andrews encyclopedic work The Secret World: A History of Intelligence (Yale). Andrew, who is a longtime history don at Cam…

The Department of Homeland Security stored sensitive data from the nations bioterrorism defense program on an insecure website where it was vulnerable to attacks by hackers for over a decade, according to government documents reviewed by The Times. The data …

The Hungry Gamer Reviews Saibou Before I begin I was provided with a review copy of the game in exchange for an honest review. This is NOT a paid review. Who likes biology? Who wants to play around with bacteria and viruses? If that sounds like a tough sell…

The eruption of a supervolcano underneath Yellowstone National Park would be like nothing humanity has ever seen, according to an op-ed from The New York Times. There are 20 supervolcanoes on Earth that represent that greatest natural threat to human life, w…

The eruption of a “supervolcano” underneath Yellowstone National Park would be like nothing humanity has ever seen, according to an op-ed from The New York Times. There are 20 supervolcanoes on Earth that represent that greatest natural threat to human life,…

Tech giants, and social media ones in particular, are, well, giant. But theyre also dense, and certain problems tend to arise when a very large number of people occupy the same space. Sites like Facebook rely on the so-called network effect, the concept that…

Abstract Bacillus anthracis and Yersinia pestis are zoonotic bacteria capable of causing severe and sometimes fatal infections in animals and humans. Although considered as diseases of antiquity in industrialized countries due to animal and public health imp…

Tech giants, and social media ones in particular, are, well, giant. But theyre also dense, and certain problems tend to arise when a very large number of people occupy the same space. Sites like Facebook rely on the so-called network effect, the concept tha…

The internet search histories of novelists can be quite disturbing. Writer Kathleen Valenti shares the methodology behind web searches for her newest medical mystery. Im waiting for the FBI to ring my doorbell. Or maybe the CIA, the NSA or, forgoing the alph…

The current apocalypse in American politics got me started on reading horror. My whole life Ive read voraciouslybut never horror. For one year, I read a book a day in an effort to find my way out of an all-encompassing griefand it worked. During that year of …