Bringing a Gatorade into the cave might be a bad idea; it might be hard to distinguish it from the pee bottle.

In his first book since the 2008 essay collection Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature, David Quammen looks at the natural world from yet another angle: the search for the next human pandemic, what epidemiologists call “the next big one.” His quest leads him around the world to study a variety of suspect zoonoses—animal-hosted pathogens that infect humans.

There's a priest wants t'see you, m'lord. Well, tell him I'm Jewish.

But heere's a Parchment... I found it in his Closset, 'tis his Will.