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dan Dan Samorodnitsky

30 posts by dan Author since 2023
A man tilting his head back with his mouth open about to sneeze
Members February 25, 2025 by dan in Interviews

Carl Zimmer is an air-head. You should be one too.

In his new book Air-Borne, the prolific science journalist traces investigations into aerobiology, from famous scientists like Louis Pasteur to the husband-and-wife duo who discovered how bacteria spread in the air, before being “thrown into oblivion”

Books being thrown into a flaming pile while onlookers perform Hitler salutes. A photograph of Nazi book burning, 1933.
February 1, 2025 by dan

This is a book burning

The Trump administration's actions at the CDC, NIH, and NSF are the familiar tactics of fascists and dictators