Did you know that Einstein’s brain saw more of the US than he did? True story. Forty years after he died, a piece of his brain took a road trip with a journalist and the pathologist who performed the autopsy on Einstein in 1955 (and kept his brain! What?). You can read about it in Driving …
The National Park Service is celebrating its 100th birthday with free park admission through the rest of the weekend. Here are some books to help. Get out there and enjoy!
Twelve years ago this summer, I sat at a campfire in a Central African forest, hearing the sad, horrific account of an Ebola virus outbreak in a nearby village. My two informants were Bantu men who had lost friends and loved ones in that outbreak. One of them, a shy fellow named Sophiano, with a …
