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Over generations, the gene pool of the first farmers became increasingly dominated by individuals who could drink beer on a regular basis. Most of the world‘s population today is made up of descendants of those early beer drinkers, and we have largely inherited their genetic tolerance for alcohol.🍻🍺

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Reading Patient Zero while sitting in the ER waiting room with a friend. Perhaps a little too perfect that I'd just picked up this to read

While Merlin Sheldrake's book Entangled Life highlighted the many amazing aspects of fungi, this book focuses on the threat posed when they are introduced into new environments & hosts with no resistance. The results can be devastating, as in the case of the American chestnut, bats wiped out by white-nose syndrome, or monoculture bananas. The author highlights the crucial importance of genetic diversity and recognition of our interconnected world.

Eh. This was just okay for me personally. She lays out fears of coming fungal pandemics to Earth‘s living things due to global warming. A lot of the book was about plant biology, which I don‘t find as interesting as animals/humans. I did like her info about white nose syndrome in bats and hard-to-treat ear yeast infections in humans. I think someone more interested in plants would enjoy this more. 🤷🏻‍♀️

This was so interesting and eye opening. I found myself both appalled and horrified whilst at the same time unable to put the book down. Truly, a very good and educational read given the pandemic we all just went through. #nonfictionread

Y'all this book sucked me in! I'm trying to do better about my #nonfiction reading and this book focuses on the cholera outbreak in London. This was a fascinating read part medical thriller part medical mystery and well paced. #bookspin @TheAromaofBooks

I was about 12 years old when I read Outbreak by Robin Cook, the book that started my curiosity about the Ebola virus. I am 41 years old and still cannot stop myself from reading books of any sort related to the virus.

My husband and I needed the equivalent of a weekend away from the farm to take a little break, so we‘ve spent the last few days on Oahu relaxing. And here‘s my small haul from their Barnes and Noble! We really don‘t have any good bookstores at home, so it was lovely to have a nice relaxing browse.

This was a throughly engaging read about the story of cholera and the work that was done behind the scenes to create a modern day epidemiology field within medicine. It included a chapter on the Map created. By John Snow, that told the story of how the map he made allowed for an understanding of what cholera was doing

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This was really good. It was kind of slow at the start, and it doesn't help at all that Kinyoun was kind of an asshole (however right he was about needing to contain the spread of plague). Once Blue was called in and some things started being done competently, it became pretty riveting. It's a bit sad that Blue became bitter toward the end of his career -- but he had, in the end, a career to be very proud of, and his work in SF was exemplary.