While researching the life and work of Prof. Max Von Pettenkofer, distinguished chemist and one-time cholera-sample drinker (“The Pettenkofer Files” in SW will give you the full story), I came across a link to a NY Times news story about his his (non cholera-related) 1901 suicide. result 19 of googling “Pettenkofer” (near the bottom...
Read MoreThey sing! They dance! They fire!
Pilobolus – the artillery fungi I wrote about in “Cow Crap Cannons” – are definitely going places. Check out this post in Zimmer’s “The Loom”, featuring the world’s first fungal opera.
Read MoreBrisbane’s wonders
Here is a podcast of an interview I did for Richard Fidler’s “The Conversation Hour” on ABC Brisbane. I had fun – Richard and his gang over there sure know how to make a guy feel at home. Unfortunately they also have a policy of photographing their interviewees, which accounts for the grinning atrocity on the left-hand side. Perhaps...
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