Tessera
Folgen

David Quammen

@quammen.bsky.social

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.

242 Posts3101 Follower239 Folgt
David Quammen@quammen.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Hello, NBC? Are you insane? What's is it that makes you think we want to watch HOUR after HOUR after HOUR of prime time Olympic coverage of . .. CURLING?? We don't. It's not an athletic activity, a sport. It's a nice pastime for seniors.

David Quammen@quammen.bsky.social · last yr.

So, I heard about the world leader who got stuck on a sabotaged escalator at the UN. He was trapped for two hours, waiting for rescuers. Then his wife pointed out that a stuck escalator is still a stairway, and she walked away.

BK. Titanji@boghuma.bsky.social · last yr.

We do not talk enough about how much vaccines have transformed Ebola outbreaks. The country stock pile of 2000 vaccines was immediately deployed to respond to the outbreak in the DRC and 45,000 additional doses have been approved for shipment to the DRC. www.afro.who.int/countries/de...

Ebola vaccination begins in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Vaccination of frontline health workers and contacts of people infected with Ebola virus disease has begun in Bulape health zone in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Kasai Province where an outbr...

afro.who.int

Jack Hopkins-The Original@therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · last yr.

Everyone parrots the line, “They’ll just replace Trump with another figurehead.” Bullsh*t. Later today in my latest JHN Newsletter I’ll break down why Trump is the one irreplaceable piece of this machine. When he’s gone...the whole thing starts to crack.

David Quammen@quammen.bsky.social · last yr.

One of the things that amazes me about the English Civil War (roughly 1642-1651), as I'm reading of it in David Hume's great history, vol. 5, is that this was essentially a ferocious, murderous, ruthless religious war—fought between Episcopalians and Presbyterians.

Kristian G. Andersen@kgandersen.bsky.social · last yr.

Our research has been engulfed by an endless torrent of lab leak conspiracy theories about the origin of the pandemic - even as the evidence for zoonosis has only grown stronger. This fuels anti-science agendas and erodes public trust. Now, we respond 👇 theconversation.com/how-conspira...

How conspiracy theories about COVID’s origins are hampering our ability to prevent the next pandemic

The COVID pandemic likely began when the virus jumped from animals to humans, and didn’t start in a lab. But false narratives continue to circulate.

theconversation.com

Adam Kinzinger@adamkinzinger.substack.com · last yr.

Some generations were asked to storm beaches. Ours is being asked to stay engaged. That’s not too much to ask. I wrote this piece not just as a veteran or former congressman but as a dad. We are not the generation that lets this flame die. Not on my watch adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/we-are-not...

We Are Not the Generation That Lets This Die

After 250 years of sacrifice, we won’t let apathy be our legacy.

adamkinzinger.substack.com

The New Yorker@newyorker.com · last yr.

When ICE agents questioned a group of 11- to 14-year-olds who’d just finished batting practice, their coach, Youman Wilder, stepped in. “I’m willing to die to make sure these kids can get home,” he recounted afterward.

ICE Agents Invade a Manhattan Little League Field

Youman Wilder has coached local kids for twenty-one years—including four who have gone pro. When masked agents tried to interrogate his players, he told them, “You don’t have more rights than they do....

newyorker.com

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · last yr.

A Korean-born researcher and longtime U.S. legal permanent resident has spent the past week detained by immigration officials at the San Francisco International Airport without explanation and has been denied access to an attorney, according to his lawyer.

Scientist on green card detained for a week without explanation, lawyer says

A Korean citizen studying in Texas on a green card was detained in San Francisco after a trip overseas. His lawyer says authorities won’t give a reason.

washingtonpost.com

David Quammen@quammen.bsky.social · last yr.

As things get weirder, I keep expecting Trump's body to split open suddenly, like a character in "Men in Black," to reveal that there's nothing inside the skin but a tower of nibbling maggots. I say this with all due respect.

David Quammen@quammen.bsky.social · last yr.

I wrote this story as a young man in Montana, forty years ago, struggling to understand, struggling to survive, and I am very glad and grateful to see that it has legs. We all have fathers. Mine was a wondrous man. This story is not about him. It's fiction. Your father?

Narrative@narrativemag.bsky.social · last yr.

“He wanted to beg him to reconsider. The boy had never before seen his father hopeless. He was afraid. But he was no longer afraid of his father.” —excerpt from “Walking Out” by David Quammen @quammen.bsky.social

David Quammen@quammen.bsky.social · last yr.

2/2 David Hume: I always pictured him as a sort of wiry, wry Barry Fitzgerald-type character, but Dennis Rasmussen ("The Infidel and the Professor") suggests he more closely resembled a Scottish Sydney Greenstreet.