As I told you a few weeks ago, my book SUPERBUG (Free Press 2010) is out in paperback. Mark Frauenfelder of BoingBoing.com has very kindly put up an interview and podcast about it. And Joanne Manaster, AKA @ScienceGoddess, has done one of her excellent and charming book review videos, calling it “not for the faint of heart or someone incessantly worried about their health.” (Heh.) I’m grateful to both.
Maryn McKenna is a former senior writer at WIRED. She covers health, public health, and medicine, and is a faculty member at Emory University’s Center for the Study of Human Health. Before coming to WIRED she freelanced for magazines in the US and Europe, including Scientific American, Smithsonian, The New ... Read More
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