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.”

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Many Podheads got very excited when gadget-guru Web sites — like Slashdot.org and iPoding.com — reported that Apple had buried a super-secret debugger program in the iPod software […]

In Hồ Chí Minh City, no one, including residents, private businesses or market vendors were allowed to raise poultry, pet birds or fighting cocks during the late 2005 outbreak.