DDT and Snake oil

For those of you following the attempts to resurrect DDT as the saviour of mankind, Ed at Millard Fillmore’s Bathtub has a great new post in which he links an old TV drama to DDT and it’s apologists. Check it out!
I have been AWOL lately in my writings on DDT–it’s just been the semester [...]

Minuscule: Petit repast

I admit it–I’m totally in love with this series. And I think we’ve all had meals like this
Alas, I have not yet found anywhere to purchase the DVDs in the US. I sent an email (rather poorly written in French) to them, but no reply. My best hope [...]

Leishmaniasis in Texas

Ugh–a nasty disease common outside the US now appears to have set up shop in Texas:
“Numerous cases of the disease, called leishmaniasis, have been reported in troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. But for the first time, cases of this dangerous infection are appearing in North Texas in patients who have not traveled to endemic [...]