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Author and journalist. The Song of the Dodo, Spillover, The Reluctant Mr. Darwin, The Tangled Tree, Breathless, and other books. Most recently, The Heartbeat of the Wild. Bunch of magazine work since 1981.
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Late last year I listened to some Nez Perce salmon activists, which helped with perspective as they talked about surviving and striving through much worse. Still business as usual from their perspective, which is hard to hear but a little comforting too.
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And yes, you are probably right many don't appreciate Operation Warp Speed's ability to get vaccines within a year of the pandemic, depended on decades of work, much of it NIH-funded. They probably also don't appreciate that that capability is being dismantled now.
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