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Tara C. Smith is an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology. Her research involves a number of pathogens at the animal-human nexus. She also writes for The Panda's Thumb and previously for WIRED SCIENCE's Correlations. Please note the views expressed on this site are Dr. Smith's alone and may not be representative of the groups mentioned above.
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March 31, 2006
Category: Blog carnivals
Orac just mentioned that Phil's Bad Astronomy blog was featured in Science's Netwatch section. John Hawks got plugged last week, and Pandas Thumb received a notice last November (mentioning this story I wrote and cross-posted to Panda's Thumb, even). And...
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Category: General Epidemiology
So far this week, I've mostly been talking in generalities--the introductions to the topic, or how the animals we eat or other types of human behavior can put us at greater risk for the emergence of such diseases. Today...
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 1:35 PM • 32 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Blog carnivals
Just a reminder to submit your entries to me or Ewen at Complex Medium, who will be hosting next week's carnival. He's promised to make it better than Police Academy V--who can miss with a guarantee like that?...
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Category: Humor
So, PZ was apparently collecting Jesus pictures or something. (Yeah, I'm late to the game--blame it on Atlanta). I've had this one on my camera for awhile and keep meaning to upload it: guess this is as good as a...
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 9:35 AM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 30, 2006
Category: Infectious disease
I mentioned in part 2 of the introduction the role that war plays in the emergence and transmission of infectious disease. Accurate numbers are difficult to come by, but currently, it's estimated that approximately 120 million people worldwide are...
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 1:45 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: General biology
Saw this awhile ago on Science and Politics, but it keeps getting pushed down the line of my entries. See what a panel of high-schoolers has to say about creationism, intelligent design, and evolution. I guess it should be considered...
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Category: Blog carnivals
...check it out over at Terra Sigillata....
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March 29, 2006
Category: Iowa/area news
...and where better to go than Wal-Mart? And I thought my spring break trips as an undergrad were dull......
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Category: AIDS/HIV
No, for the uninitiated, the title doesn't refer to some kind of sexual euphemism. From the Bushmeat Task Force: In Africa, forest is often referred to as 'the bush', thus wildlife and the meat derived from it is referred...
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From this essay (via The Island of Doubt): Convictions are important things. We do not want our children to have minds so open that their brains fall out. On the other hand, certainty is conviction absent humility. Certainty is intolerant....
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