by Andrew Maynard | Oct 26, 2014 | Health, Public Health
I’m a bit of a cash register receipt junkie. I obsessively stuff my wallet with those little slips of thermal paper telling me how much I’ve spent. And it has to be paper – none of this e-receipt nonsense. But an article published last week in the...
by Andrew Maynard | Oct 24, 2014 | Ebola, Health
As of October 19, over 9,000 cases of Ebola had been reported, with close to 5,000 deaths, almost exclusively in West Africa. And while there have been success stories such as the elimination of Ebola infections from Nigeria and Senegal, the numbers of cases in...
by Andrew Maynard | Oct 23, 2014 | Ebola, Health
There’s something rather human about being scared of the ebola virus. It’s a “bogeyman” virus – the stuff of nightmares; hovering in the shadows of our imagination like a half-glimpsed specter. Like most imagined horrors though, the...
by Andrew Maynard | Oct 21, 2014 | Communication
I had a roller coaster of an interview with Seth Shostak (Director of the Center for SETI Research and host of Big Picture Science) last week on risk and black swan events. I was poised to talk about rare but high impact events like a mega-eruption at Yellowstone...
by Andrew Maynard | Oct 17, 2014 | Health
We’ve just posted a new video about the University of Michigan Environmental Health Science department that I’m quite pleased with. It’s aimed at students who may be interested in pursuing a graduate degree in the environmental health sciences (and...
