Here was the first I heard of Zika, syncitin, and "aerial rivers"!
I'd read a lot about how our genome co-evolved with bacteria, but not as much about it co-evolving with viruses.
Junk DNA not so junky?
{Non-fiction} Acquiring Genomes
Last read in 2008. Time to revisit it.
{Photograph} Trees; WANTED: dead or alive.
A bat in its home. Courtesy "Nine Wonderful Ways Wildlife Need Trees" from nwf.org
{Article} "When a Country Without Abortion Tells Women Not to Get Pregnant"
The El Salvadoran government wants its(!) women to not get pregnant for a couple years. 40% are already sterile self-made. What's next?
{Novel} When She Woke, pp 1-100
In dystopian-future Texas, a woman gets an abortion and is caught and convicted of murder.
She is jailed for 30 days and released after punitive variolation. The virus changes the pigment of her skin.
{Scent} phial of Victoria's Secret perfume "Bombshell"
See this NPR article for the mosquitoid relevance.
Not only is this the sole non-media item on this list, it's the only one I haven't knowingly encountered / read / experienced.
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