Podcast appearances and mentions of Richard Preston

To read/listen to all my essays, article and interviews, please subscribe at https://khmezek.substack.com/ “They were two human primates carrying another primate. One was the master of the earth, or at least believed himself to be, and the other was a nimble dweller in trees, a cousin of the master of the earth. Both species, the human and the monkey, were in the presence of another life form, which was older and more powerful than either of them, and was a dweller in blood.” ~ Richard Preston, The Hot Zone The Hot Zone tells the true story of what happens when a disease with a 90% mortality rate—that would be Ebola—is let loose in Washington DC. The book reads like a thriller, following a team of soldiers and scientists who are tasked with containing the deadly disease. Natural diseases are bad enough. But mankind can take those diseases, even mild ones, and turn them into bioweapons that can kill millions or a few or even one specific person. We are told that in order to protect humanity, we must study pathogens in labs and the best way to do that is to alter them to become more dangerous. This is what we call gain of function. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kh-mezek/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kh-mezek/support

Biological Warfare - Richard Preston

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Chapter 1 What's The Hot ZoneThe Hot Zone, written by Richard Preston, is a non-fiction book published in 1994. It is an account of the origins and spread of highly contagious and deadly viruses, particularly Ebola and Marburg. The book details various outbreaks of these viruses, including the Ebola Reston outbreak in a primate facility in Reston, Virginia, in 1989. Preston explores the investigation and containment efforts of scientists and medical professionals while showcasing the potential dangers and devastating effects of these viral diseases. The Hot Zone is known for its dramatic storytelling and its exploration of the science, history, and implications of deadly viruses.Chapter 2 Is The Hot Zone A Good BookYes, The Hot Zone by Richard Preston is widely regarded as a good book. It is a non-fiction work that explores the origins and impact of deadly viruses such as Ebola. The book is praised for its gripping storytelling, scientific accuracy, and the way it explores the dangers and effects of such viruses on both a personal and global scale. However, it is worth noting that the book contains detailed descriptions of graphic and disturbing content, so it may not be suitable for all readers.Chapter 3 The Hot Zone SummaryThe Hot Zone by Richard Preston is a bestselling non-fiction book that recounts the history and incidents surrounding viral hemorrhagic fevers, particularly the Ebola virus. The book provides a detailed account of various outbreaks of Ebola and other deadly viruses, including Marburg virus.The first part of the book introduces the origins of Ebola and its initial discovery in a Belgian research facility in Africa. It also delves into the case of Charles Monet, a French expatriate who worked at a sugarcane plantation in Kenya and contracted the virus. Monet's case serves as an example of how Ebola can rapidly spread and cause severe symptoms, leading to organ failure and ultimately death.The second part of the book focuses on the emergence of Reston virus, a strain of Ebola that was discovered in a primate facility in Reston, Virginia. This section explores how the virus affected monkeys, causing severe illness and death, and raises concerns about its potential to spread to humans.The final part of the book discusses the efforts made by scientists, military personnel, and medical experts to contain Ebola outbreaks and prevent further spread. It highlights the brave work of individuals such as Colonel Nancy Jaax, a veterinary pathologist who played a crucial role in identifying and containing the virus.Throughout the book, Preston emphasizes the severity and lethal nature of Ebola, highlighting the potential for a global pandemic. He also examines the challenges faced by scientists and researchers in studying and combating these deadly viruses.The Hot Zone combines scientific research, personal accounts, and gripping storytelling to provide a comprehensive overview of viral hemorrhagic fevers and their potential impact on humanity. It raises awareness about the importance of biosecurity and the potential risks posed by emerging infectious diseases.Chapter 4 The Hot Zone AuthorThe author of the book "The Hot Zone" is Richard Preston. He released the book on October 20, 1994. Richard Preston has written several other books, including:1. "The Demon in the Freezer" (2002): This book explores the potential return and repercussions of smallpox, providing a thrilling account of the history and modern-day dangers of the virus.2. "The Cobra Event" (1998): This fictional thriller delves into the world of...

Richard asks the question: How do we get revelation on short notice. he encourages us on cultivating a garden of revelation that we can easily access when demand strikes. He takes us through the book of Hebrews and it’s relevance for us today. Download Audio Here Subscribe to the NCMI Gauteng Podcast

Richards shares with us why The Gospel is so great! Download Audio Here Subscribe to the NCMI Gauteng Podcast

Richard asks the question: How do we get revelation on short notice. he encourages us on cultivating a garden of revelation that we can easily access when demand strikes. He takes us through the book of Hebrews and it’s relevance for us today. Download Audio Here Subscribe to the NCMI Gauteng Podcast

Richards shares with us why The Gospel is so great! Download Audio Here Subscribe to the NCMI Gauteng Podcast

[Thriller] Resenha do livro "Micro", de Michael Crichton e Richard Preston. A resenha escrita está nesse link. O que aconteceria se a gente pegasse 7 biólogos com especialidades diversas e mais um engenheiro e reduzisse todos a tamanhos milimétricos? Depois ainda largasse o grupo numa floresta, tendo que se virar para não virar presa dos animais que eles mesmos passaram a vida estudando? Pois Micro conta justamente essa aventura. Do mesmo criador de "O parque dos dinossauros", ou seja: imperdível! Para comprar o livro em português, é só clicar aqui. Lembrando que você pode ouvir todos os episódios, fazer comentários e comprar o livro nesse link: www.minhaestantecolorida.com

Pathogens in Pop Culture: Jack Ryan, The Hot Zone, and EbolaIn episode two of the Pathogens in Pop Culture series, hosts Lauren Sauer and Rachel Lookadoo welcome guest Dr. Billy Fischer to discuss the portrayal of Ebola Virus Disease in the 2018 Jack Ryan TV series and Richard Preston's 1994 novel, The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story. Together, they will explore the science behind the virus, including its transmission, approaches to treatment and care, and the accuracy of its portrayal in the TV series and the book. Join us for an in-depth analysis of the science and myths surrounding Ebola in popular culture.Questions or comments for NETEC? Contact us at info@netec.org.Visit Transmission Interrupted on the web at netec.org/podcast.GuestWilliam A. Fischer II, MDWilliam A Fischer, II, MD, serves as an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary Diseases and Critical Care Medicine at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine. He is a Pulmonary and Critical Care physician at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine with expertise in severe emerging viral infections, clinical research, and international health. Dr Fischer graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine and completed a residency in Internal Medicine and a fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the Johns Hopkins Hospital where he was an Assistant Chief of Service. Dr Fischer has extensive field experience providing medical care in resource limited settings and was deployed as a WHO critical care physician to care for Ebola-infected patients in Gueckedou, Guinea, the epicenter of the 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak, N'zerekore in response to a resurgence of Ebola virus disease (EVD) and the Democratic Republic of Congo for outbreaks in 2018 and 2019 where he helped launch the use of novel therapeutics and optimized supportive care. Dr Fischer has active research programs exploring the clinical complications of Ebola virus disease, the prevalence, pathogenesis, and persistence of Lassa Fever (PREPARE study), and serves as one of the principal investigators for an NIH study (PREVAIL IV) evaluating a novel antiviral compound for efficacy in reducing or eliminating Ebola virus shedding in male survivors of EVD. He also has research programs exploring respiratory viral infections in high-risk populations including the elderly and HIV-infected individuals. Dr Fischer serves as the Director of Emerging Pathogens for the Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. He is also a member of the WHO Epidemic Clinical Management Team, the WHO Antiviral Working Group, the WHO Personal Protective Equipment End-User's Advisory Council, the WHO Advisory Committee on Infection, Prevention, and Control, and was a member of the CDC Ebola Response Team.HostsLauren Sauer, MScLauren is an Associate Professor in the College of Public Health, Department of Environmental, Agricultural, and Occupational Health, at the University of Nebraska Medical Center and Core Faculty of the UNMC Global Center for Health Security. She is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine in the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and the director of the Special Pathogens Research Network.She previously served as Director of Operations for the Johns Hopkins Office of Critical Event Preparedness where she ran the inpatient COVID19 biobank and served on the COVID-19 research steering committee for JHU. Lauren's research focuses on human subjects research in bio-emergencies and disasters, in particular, ethical implementation of research and navigating the regulatory environment. The goal of her research is to provide health care...

Kentucky Corn Grower Richard Preston says National Corn Grower Association policy is important for the state's farmers.

05/03/23- Richard Preston from storehouse church preached on 6 leadership transitions in the bible and how God blessed it and how it is Gods plan fro change. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/southerngatewaychurch/message

Richard Preston shares an amazing revelation on how we as believers can live in the times that we live in. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/southerngatewaychurch/message

Richard Preston looks at several important characteristics that make a base church in the New Testament. This was taught at a church planters and lead elders training course in South Africa, March 2022. You can follow the notes by downloading the Church Planters and Lead Elders training manual at ncmi.net.

If you understand the vision of the church, you can get on aboard. Richard Preston, who serves on the NCMI apostolic team, encourages us to embrace the church's vision and serve wholeheartedly with our heats and hands. As we give of ourselves, we will live in the overflow of what God has for us.

Today we're talking about one of the MOST beautifulest animal: the redwood friggin tree. They're big and cool, and people like to climb them.Source: The Wild Trees (2007) by Richard Preston

This week we finish up our discussion of "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston. Last week you heard about the harrowing origins of the Marburg Virus, Ebola Zaire, and Ebola Sudan. Tune in for a discussion of biosafety level 4 safety protocols, the ethics of using primates in medical research, and an outbreak of a deadly disease on American soil.   In the show, we talk about the structure of Ebola and various filoviruses. You can see some electron microscope images of the virus here: https://www.utmb.edu/virusimages/VI/ebola.

This week, we delve into the terrifying discovery of the Ebola virus by going through Richard Preston's "The Hot Zone". Tune in to hear about the human and scientific impacts of a series of deadly virus outbreaks in the 80s. You'll also learn how close humanity came to a catastrophic global epidemic. Warning: this episode contains some graphic descriptions of the effects of Ebola Virus Disease on the human body. If you are uncomfortable with blood and disease, you may want to skip this one. We won't tell anyone! Bonus: We figured out what ground glass is. I discuss it briefly in the intro, and you can learn more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_glass.

Learning in robotics doesn't have to take weeks, if you can design, build, and test a robot in hours in a video game. Dan White, CEO of Filament Games, introduces RoboCo, their game meant to teach principles of robotics to players, from the mechanical design all the way to testing in the 3D world. Dan discusses cofounding Filament Games with partners Dan Norton and Alex Stone, what constitutes a good or bad learning game, plans for integrating RoboCo into educational curricula, and more. Related to this episode: • Filament Games: https://www.filamentgames.com/ • RoboCo: https://www.roboco.co/ • Meaningful Gaming in Education, PAX presentation from Ashley Brandin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kk1pkwi7X8w • iCivics: https://www.icivics.org/ • Roblox: https://www.roblox.com/ • Besiege: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Besiege_(video_game) • Space Engineers: https://www.spaceengineersgame.com/ • Minecraft Edu: https://education.minecraft.net/en-us/homepage • ‘RoboCo' Looks to Fuel Interest in STEM by Letting You Build Useful (and Crappy) Robots: https://www.roadtovr.com/roboco-looks-fuel-interest-stem-letting-build-useful-crappy-robots/ • FIRST Robotics: https://www.firstinspires.org/robotics/frc • Steam Workshop: https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/ • Civilization: https://civilization.com/ • Micro, by Michael Creighton and Richard Preston: https://www.michaelcrichton.com/micro/ Subscribe and find podcast updates at: http://www.k12engineering.net. Support Pios Labs with regular donations on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pioslabs. You'll also be supporting projects like the Engineer's Guide to Improv and Art Games, The Calculator Gator, or Chordinates! Thanks to our donors and listeners for making the show possible. The K12 Engineering Education Podcast is a production of Pios Labs: http://www.pioslabs.com.

The Reading Stack reviews and analyzes, "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston. The Hot Zone is the thrilling account of the struggle between a family of deadly viruses and the people given the task to discover; isolate; and eradicate these viruses before humanity is found in the virus' cross-hairs. Music: https://www.bensound.com

"A wide door for effective work has opened" - 1 Corinthians 16:9 What a time the South Africa Equip 2021 was! Lives forever changed, souls saved, destinies revealed, callings refreshed & new depths of unity reached! Enjoy these apostolic deposits from across South Africa.

For the 100th episode of Fiction/Non/Fiction, co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan hand out the first-ever “Nonnie Awards” for the podcast's standout moments from the past four years. Then author, poet, and playwright Jabari Asim reflects on how the discourse on racism and police brutality has shifted since last summer. Asim also reads from his upcoming novel Yonder, out in January 2022. To hear the full episode, subscribe through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below. Check out video excerpts from our interviews at LitHub's Virtual Book Channel and Fiction/Non/Fiction's YouTube Channel, and don't miss our brand-new website: https://www.fnfpodcast.net/ This podcast is produced by Andrea Tudhope. Selected readings: Jabari Asim Yonder (out January 2022, available for pre-order) Stop and Frisk We Can't Breathe: On Black Lives, White Lies, and the Art of Survival Mighty Justice Others: Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration by Ruben Jonathan Miller The 1619 Project, Nikole Hannah-Jones The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas Watchmen (TV series) Fiction/Non/Fiction, June 2020: Black Stories Matter: Terrion Williamson and Jabari Asim on Narrative During the George Floyd Protests Fiction/Non/Fiction, February 2020: Coronavirus and Contagion: Laurie Chen and Richard Preston on Writing About the Spread of Disease Fiction/Non/Fiction, March 2019: C. Riley Snorton and T Fleischmann Talk Gender, Race, and Literature Fiction/Non/Fiction, September 2018: Garrard Conley and SJ Sindu on the Mainstreaming of Queer Identity Fiction/Non/Fiction, January 2018: Literary Color Lines: On Inclusion in Publishing Fiction/Non/Fiction, November 2017: We're All Russian, Now: Talking Russian-American Politics, and the Enduring Appeal of Russian Literature   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Editor and publisher Sean McDonald and novelist Monica West join co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to discuss how the “reopening” of the country is affecting authors and the publishing industry. First, McDonald, founder of MCD Books, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, talks about publishing in the pandemic, and how that experience may shape the industry going forward. Then, West reads from her debut novel, Revival Season, and shares what it's been like to launch a book during (fingers crossed!) the pandemic's waning days. To hear the full episode, subscribe through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below. Check out video excerpts from our interviews at LitHub's Virtual Book Channel and Fiction/Non/Fiction's YouTube Channel, and don't miss our brand-new website: https://www.fnfpodcast.net/ This podcast is produced by Andrea Tudhope. Selected readings: Sean McDonald MCD x FSG The Electric Eel newsletter Monica West Revival Season   Others: “FSG Names McDonald Head of Experimental Imprint,” Publishers Weekly Beowulf: A New Translation by Maria Dahvana Headley Sharks in the Time of Saviors by Kawai Strong Washburn Until Proven Safe by Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley The Mamba Mentality by Kobe Bryant, Phil Jackson and Pau Gasol Hummingbird Salamander by Jeff VanderMeer Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon F/N/F Season 3, Episode 10: Coronavirus and Contagion: Laurie Chen and Richard Preston on Writing About the Spread of Disease F/N/F Season 4, Episode 3: Monsters for President: Maria Dahvana Headley on Modern Mythmaking F/N/F Episode 26: Garrard Conley and SJ Sindu on the Mainstreaming of Queer Identity F/N/F Season 3, Episode 6: Rene Denfeld and Megan Phelps-Roper on Isolating the Language of Abuse in Politics, Gender Relations, and Sexual Abuse F/N/F Season 3, Episode 24: Summer Books Extravaganza: Margot Livesey and Jaswinder Bolina on Beach Reading When the Beach is Closed   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Each week on "Your Legal Buzz" our host Steve Strum talks to attorneys in the North Florida area who are making a difference. This week he sat down with Richard Preston from New Life Jax Recovery Services.New Life Jax Recovery Services is a certified sober living home. They provide sober living environments to recovering addicts around Jacksonville, located in Orange Park, Mandarin, and Southside. To learn more, visit https://www.oasissenioradvisors.com/jacksonville/.Short company description: I am a certified Sober Living Home owner. We provide a sober living environment to recovering addicts in three locations. Southside, Mandarin, and Orange Park. The houses are nestled in suburban neighborhoods.What nonprofit do you feel makes the greatest impact in our community?: Drug Free DuvalWhat volunteer experience has impacted you the most?: Coordinating and participating in 4 Food Give Aways since the pandemic ysHow do you define success?: By helping others that had no hope and seeing them develop into thriving members of the communityWhat's your favorite way to get involved in the community?: By speaking and engaging with addicts. I am 15 years sober and my passion is to tell each struggling addict that I was there at one point. I offer my strength, experience and hope for them.Who inspires you and why?: Anyone who has one day to 100 years of sobriety inspires me. I remember when I couldn't put together 1 hour of sobriety. Staying sober was one of the most difficult things that I have done in my life. In fact, it is THE Most. But, the rewards of peace, serenity, and stability is priceless

Today's storyteller is Dr Richard Allen White III! Richard is a professor of bioinformatics at UNC Charlotte, and also has a biotech company called RAW Molecular Systems. We talk today about viruses, coronaviruses, viral therapies, eradicating diseases, antibiotic resistance, phage therapy, and a whole host of things. There's something in this episode that Richard says that I want to say again "science is a recipe to seek the truth". I love that. This episode was recorded in mid February, and research in the virus world is changing quite rapidly so I don't know if anything has changed but I just wanted to point out that it's a possibility in the months since we recorded this. Enjoy! --- You can find Rachel Villani on Twitter @flyingcypress and Storytellers of STEMM on Facebook and on the shiny new Twitter account @storytellers42. You can find Richard on Twitter @raw9371. RAW Molecular Systems: https://www.rawmolecularsystems.com/ Episodes referenced in this episode: "my friend who studies pharmaceuticals in wastewater" is Dr Jeremy Conkle (Episode 110), the other episode about viruses is with Dr Gary Trubl (Episode 93), snails and parasites episode with Dr Emlyn Resetarits (Episode 98) Book List: The Hot Zone by Richard Preston, The Plague by Alfred Camus, The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan, Microcosmos by Lynn Margulis, The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli, The Republic by Plato Recorded on 13 February 2021.

What is Ebola? Where did it come from? How can humans fight it? This nonfiction book is full of real stories, as the author truthfully tells the tale of Ebola virus. After publication, the book has been at the top of the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list for 61 weeks. As one of the most influential nonfiction classics about Ebola, it’s been translated into more than 30 languages and sold all over the world.

In this episode of Critical Matters, we will discuss the evidence-based management of severe and fulminant Clostridioides difficile infection(CDI) in the intensive care unit. Our guest is Dr. Max W. Adelman, a member of the Division of Infectious Diseases and the Department of Medicine, at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta. Additional Resources: Critical Care Management of the Patient with Clostridioides difficile: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33156122/ CDI Guidelines from IIDSA: https://www.idsociety.org/practice-guideline/clostridium-difficile/ Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis: Fecal Microbiota Transplantation for Severe or Fulminant Clostridioides difficile: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10620-021-06908-4 Books Mentioned in this Episode: The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus by Richard Preston: https://www.amazon.com/Hot-Zone The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History by John M. Barry: https://www.amazon.com/Great-Influenza

Trond Larsen shares his recent journey to Bolivia’s Zongo Valley, a haven for lost and forgotten species. Richard Preston teaches us about the would above our heads in tree canopies. Mike Benton of the Univ of Bristol discusses dinosaur extinction theory.

Multiple award winner, Stuart Macdonald continues to reinvent himself. From a nine to five job in the corporate world, he developed a contest act that won awards after awards that took him around the world. Along the way, he performed magic on the college circuit and spent many years producing a haunted house that had thousands of visitors annually with a staff of over 50 employees. He developed a character (Richard Presto) for the digital age regularly performing on Zoom meetings with his hip, 1960’s persona.Cryogenically frozen in 1962 Richard Preston was the greatest entertainer and magician of his generation. Stuart MacDonald, magician / actor www.stuartmacdonald.comRichard Preston is the first entertainer to be cryogenically frozen in 1962 and was unthawed to bring the world back together. He was the greatest entertainer in history up to 1962 and now he's proving it again with a revival of his 2020 Christmas Capers Holiday Magic Show.In this week’s episode, Stuart talks about his magical journey from the corporate world to the full time performances as a magician. Alon the way he also fooled Penn & Teller on their television show plus he is in demand giving keynote speeches to corporate audiences. This “chameleon” of a man is constantly reinventing his act and himself to keep up with the times by finding what his audience wants and needs at the time when they want and need it. View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize Download this podcast in an MP3 file by Clicking Here and then right click to save the file. You can also subscribe to the RSS feed by Clicking Here. You can download or listen to the podcast through Stitcher by Clicking Here or through FeedPress by Clicking Here or through Tunein.com by Clicking Here or through iHeart Radio by Clicking Here..If you have a Spotify account, then you can also hear us through that app, too. You can also listen through your Amazon Alexa and Google Home devices. Remember, you can download it through the iTunes store, too. See the preview page by Clicking Here

Such a key time for the church to rise up and be equipped to take the Gospel to our neighbors & the nations! Take the time to sit down and listen well, as these NCMI team members teach essentials for church leadership and life.

There are some people who are so interesting, who have such fascinating lives and jobs, that I can't wait to invite them to the podcast. Then they turn around and scare the life out of me with their book choices. That's what happened with today's guest, Azhelle Wade. Azhelle designs toys for a living, and mentors others in the toy design process. She is sweet and funny and an utterly delightful guest. But the book she chose, "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston, is about a near-catastrophic outbreak of the Ebola virus. I don't read a lot of scary books, but I can honestly say this might be the scariest book ever written. Azhelle and I had a great laugh about my raging anxiety, and then the interview turned surprisingly candid and honest. I know you're going to love her.    Support the Best Book Ever Podcast on Patreon   Follow the Best Book Ever Podcast on Instagram or on the Best Book Ever Website   Host: Julie Strauss Website/Instagram/Facebook   Guest: Azhelle Wade Podcast/Facebook/Instagram/Website/Toy Creators Academy   Indie Bookstore Shoutout of the Week: Sisters Uptown Bookstore in Harlem, New York Independent bookstores need you more than ever!   Discussed in this episode: The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus by Richard Preston The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum Charlie & the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl The Hot Zone Miniseries Pandemic Board Game World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks The Art of the Click: How to Harness the Power of Direct-Response Copywriting and Make More Sales by Glenn Fisher Game Changer: The Story of Pictionary and How I Turned a Simple Idea into the Bestselling Board Game in the World by Rob Angel   Discussed in our Patreon Exclusive Clip: Skip It Polly Pocket House Throw Throw Burrito Doubles (Julie’s Note: I bought this game for my family after talking with Azhelle and it is a BLAST!) Friendship Bracelet Creator Scattergories What Do You Meme? Party Game (Note: some of these are affiliate links. Your purchase helps to keep the Best Book Ever Podcast in business. Thank you!)

There are some people who are so interesting, who have such fascinating lives and jobs, that I can't wait to invite them to the podcast. Then they turn around and scare the life out of me with their book choices. That's what happened with today's guest, Azhelle Wade. Azhelle designs toys for a living, and mentors others in the toy design process. She is sweet and funny and an utterly delightful guest. But the book she chose, "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston, is about a near-catastrophic outbreak of the Ebola virus. I don't read a lot of scary books, but I can honestly say this might be the scariest book ever written. Azhelle and I had a great laugh about my raging anxiety, and then the interview turned surprisingly candid and honest. I know you're going to love her.    Support the Best Book Ever Podcast on Patreon   Follow the Best Book Ever Podcast on Instagram or on the Best Book Ever Website   Host: Julie Strauss Website/Instagram/Facebook   Guest: Azhelle Wade Podcast/Facebook/Instagram/Website/Toy Creators Academy   Indie Bookstore Shoutout of the Week: Sisters Uptown Bookstore in Harlem, New York Independent bookstores need you more than ever!   Discussed in this episode: The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus by Richard Preston The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum Charlie & the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl The Hot Zone Miniseries Pandemic Board Game World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks The Art of the Click: How to Harness the Power of Direct-Response Copywriting and Make More Sales by Glenn Fisher Game Changer: The Story of Pictionary and How I Turned a Simple Idea into the Bestselling Board Game in the World by Rob Angel   Discussed in our Patreon Exclusive Clip: Skip It Polly Pocket House Throw Throw Burrito Doubles (Julie's Note: I bought this game for my family after talking with Azhelle and it is a BLAST!) Friendship Bracelet Creator Scattergories What Do You Meme? Party Game (Note: some of these are affiliate links. Your purchase helps to keep the Best Book Ever Podcast in business. Thank you!)

Some of the NCMI Team in South Africa put together a church(site) planter training course over 8 consecutive Tuesday evenings, for those feeling called to plant a church or be part of a church plant. Because the content was intended for those in South Africa, some of the context may be regional, but the overall value of the ministry is invaluable and helpful in any nation for those feeling the call to plant a church.

This week we’re joined by The New York Times bestselling author Douglas Preston ’78. An accomplished journalist, Preston is the author of more than 20 novels including the Special Agent Pendergast series along with co-author Lincoln Child. Preston started his career at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, which had an incredible impact on his career going forward. He went on to write the novel Relic, which became The Relic, a monster-horror film released in 1997. During his research for his novel The Monster of Florence, he found himself a little more involved than a journalist normally likes to be. He tells us about how he was charged with crimes by an Italian prosecutor. Preston also shares childhood stories about him and his brother Richard Preston ’76 and explains how telling gross stories at the dinner table became a competition, and eventually lucrative writing careers for him and his brother. Hosted by: Mark Wood and Patty Vest Produced by: Jeff Hing Transcript: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/sagecast-dougpreston-081220.txt Video Teaser: https://youtu.be/mGJboQskReQ

Richard Preston is the owner of “Silver Belle,” a frame-off, fully-restored 1971 Volkswagen Karmann Ghia. One can see photographs of this beautiful automobile on the “Gallery” page of this site. Note: Video coming soon to the “Cars, Music, and Movies” You Tube channel!

Richard blows my mind with a mathematical analogy to show just how little of the covid-19 virus actually exists on earth (that we know of) as a way of showing how seriously we should take this.

In 2014, Salome Karwah was living in Monrovia, Liberia, when Ebola struck. It killed seven members of her family and infected her, her sister and her fiancé. As soon as Karwah recovered, she volunteered with Doctors Without Borders and went to help others. In the final episode of Quarantine Genius, we tell her story. Thanks for listening. Donate to Doctors Without Borders: https://donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/onetime.cfm?_ga=2.11903092.1946371403.1595857604-1914176887.1595857604Written and researched by Lucinda Smyth; composed and sound edited by Tom Chapman; logo by Al Konstam. (Refs: WHO, Origins of the 2014 Ebola epidemic, One Year Report (2016); 'Families Must Care For Sick at Home as ebola wards fill up', The Times (2014); Jonah Lipton, ‘What ebola taught me about coronavirus’, Guardian (March 2020); Medicin Sans Frontieres, Tribute: 'Salome Karwah survived ebola to help others', (2017); NPR, 'An Ebola hero had a baby in Liberia, 4 days later she was dead' (2017); Richard Preston, Inside The Ebola Ward, New Yorker (Aug 2014); Documentary – Ebola: The Story, Dir Pascal Magnin, (2018); Ebola: When Health Workers' duty to treat is trumped, BBC, (October 2014))

This week listen in on the discussion of "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston. We are also joined by Hannah a PhD student who suggested the book for the group. She will also do readings for the guys, because, science!

Click here to buy: https://adbl.co/3cRXKUN A deadly virus - and a desperate race against time. 'One of the most horrifying things I've ever read in my entire life' Stephen King One spring morning in New York City a seventeen-year-old student wakes up feeling vaguely ill. Hours later she is having violent seizures, blood is pouring out of her nose, and she begins to attack her own body in the most hideous way imaginable. Soon, other gruesome deaths of a similar nature have been discovered, and the autopsies reveal that a previously unknown virus is at large. It replicates horribly fast, it is always fatal - and is just too efficient to be entirely natural. When the Centre for Disease Control sends a forensic pathologist to investigate, her discoveries precipitate a national crisis. THE COBRA EVENT is a dramatic, heart-stopping thriller of an all-too-real threat.

For our second show we are taking a deep dive into all things viral and bacterial, as Deadly Doses looks to the origins of the contagion narrative and ask why its such a pervasive trope within the horror genre. From the Black Plague to STD's, we examine the allure of viral films and what it is about them that makes us squirm with delight. A massive thanks to the production team and special thanks to Sean Doyle, Emmett Cleary and Paul Cooke. Films discussed include- Seventh Seal (dir. Ingmar Bergman, 1957 ) The Omega Man (dir. Boris Sagal, 1971)12 Monkeys (dir. Terry Gilliam,1995)Pontypool (dir. Bruce McDonald, 2008 ) Make sure to check out the radio play "Pontypool Changes Everything."It Follows (dir David Robert Mitchell, 2014)For recommend reading on today's podcast see:Priscilla Wald, "Contagious. Cultures, Carriers, and The Outbreak Narrative. "(2008)Devendra P. Varma ,"The Gothic Flame: Being a History of the Gothic Novel in England, Its Origins, Efflorescence, Disintegration, and Residuary Influences." (1966)Teri Shors, "Encounters in Virology."(2003)Norman, F. Cantor, "In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made." (2015)Richard Preston, "The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story." (1994)Eugene Thacker, "The Global Genome: Biotechnology, Politics, and Culture." (2006)

Richard Preston is the author of The Hot Zone and Crisis in the Red Zone. We chat and he gives me a thorough update on what we know about Covid-19 at this point, and what we don’t. www.nih.gov.

Three things for your monthly edification- a pro tip, a book recommendation, and a monthly challenge. For this month's pro tip, I teach you how to make perfect Scotch eggs. If you really want to impress your brunch guests, this recipe will do it. Our book of the month is "The Demon in the Freezer," by Richard Preston. For everyone who has suddenly become an expert in virology or epidemiology, go read this book first. Finally, the challenge for the month is to learn and practice a new survival skill.

In our first podcast episode featuring Pomona College alumni, we’re joined by The New York Times bestselling author Richard Preston ’76. A writer for The New Yorker since 1985, Preston is the only nondoctor to have received the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Champion of Prevention Award. In this episode Preston gives his insight on the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic based on researching and writing about the devastating effects of the Ebola virus in his books The Hot Zone and Crisis in the Red Zone. He provides warnings about other emerging viruses we should be worried about, and shares advice on what could be done to fight these outbreaks. Hosted by: Mark Wood and Patty Vest Produced by: Jeff Hing Transcript: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/sagecast-richardpreston-042920.txt Video Teaser: https://youtu.be/AHtu3y5s-ps

This is an attempt at understanding R0 (reproductive number) as more than a numbing number. View these notes as less definitive. In his (2014) paper Risking It All: Why are public health authorities not concerned about Ebola in the US?, Yaneer Bar-Yam writes about why R0 isn't an even distribution.One April report noted the coronavirus reproductive number was 5.7 but offered a range of 3.8-8.9. In January the estimate was 2.6. There's many reasons but one is that the reproductive number varies by the individual in the network.Humans form the same (power-law graphed) networks over and over again. In research about Wikipedia edits the graphs of posts per user was nearly identical across languages. It holds across time too, we can imagine that church members knew their parson but not every other member. This network holds on TV shows too.Image from Funkhauser.These networks are so common, they may be part of our evolution, like ten fingers. Nicholas Christakis said, “Maybe natural selection had something to do with the topology of human networks.”Christakis looks at networks to seed interventions like a farmer who avoids the arid or soaked parts of a his field. In lab research, Christakis found that when one person is nice to another person (via monetary rewards) then that person is nicer to the next. Courtesy is contagious.In other studies, Christakis changed the visibility of charity (or selfishness) and the  contagion changed too. Visibility of inequality mattered a lot, unseen inequality mattered very little. That's kinda interesting.Christakis has found three features which influence how things spread through networks.Connections, more lines between hubsContagions, faster spread between hubsPositions, different originations hubsIf Larry David gets an idea for his television show and he wants Julia Louis-Dreyfus to guest star he can ask her (#1), but if it's someone he doesn't know he'll have 'his people call your people'. He could pitch Julia via text (#2) or write her a letter. If it's Jeff Garlin that has the idea and not Larry David, (#3) then the idea has to wind through Larry to get onto the show.A real example of virality is the Zillow Zestimate. Co-founder Rich Barton wanted to advertise. That had worked for Barton at Expedia. But Bill Gurley said, "If you're buying ads to sells ads, then you're arbitraging traffic and that dog don't hunt very long." Barton wanted to focus on spreading the message (#3) far and wide. What worked better was creating something people would share (#2) among themselves.Bar-Yam warns about an average R0 when he writes about Ebola:"However, in a complex interdependent society it is possible for the actual number due to a single individual to dramatically differ from the average number, with severe consequences for the ability to contain an outbreak when it is just beginning."Ebola needs to be a disease of more concern, he wrote in 2014, because the epidemiological models used the connections, contagions, and positions of Africa which is a different network structure. "One person is not likely to be in close contact with much more than about 10 or 20 family members." That is, the rural African figures for 1, 2, and 3 are quite different from the urban African figures. "In urban areas in Africa and in the US, the nature of the contact network is different."Ebola is a hot virus and should be treated with extreme caution. Richard Preston's book, The Hot Zone is about the mid-90s almost crisis when the Ebola virus was spreading through the air in a monkey research facility just outside of Washington D.C.(Here's Preston in 2019)In the book Preston writes about the history of research. Recalling one trip in the mid-80s:"Occasionally they (researchers) came to villages, and at each village they encountered a roadblock of fallen trees. Having had centuries of experience with the smallpox virus, the village elders had instituted their own methods for controlling the virus, according to their received wisdom, which was to cut their villages off from the world, to protect their people from a raging plague. It was reverse quarantine, an ancient practice in Africa, where a village bars itself from strangers during a time of disease, and drives away outsiders who appear."Some strands of Ebola pass through he air (#2). Some do not. African villages follow the precautionary principle.Thanks to Tim H and Tim B for the suggestions and trailheads for this post. For thinking about position (#3) check out the Friendship Paradox. Get full access to POV40IQ at pov40iq.substack.com/subscribe

“Banks are playing themselves.” Entrepreneur, investor, and Mavericks owner Mark Cuban discusses the issues rolling out relief for small businesses. Richard Preston, writer for The New Yorker and author of “The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus” contemplates the fragility of the human species and the race for a vaccine. Allianz Chief Economic Advisor Mohamed El-Erian suspects that the majority of companies will suspend forward-looking guidance this earnings season.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Richard Preston, writer for The New Yorker and author of “The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus,” discusses the patterns of virus outbreaks throughout history and shares what may be ahead for the planet. Plus, 10 million Americans filed for unemployment benefits in the last few weeks, and the unemployment rate jumped nearly one full percent to 4.4% in the last month. Former Treasury Secretary Jack Lew discusses the latest report from the Department of Labor and the government’s plans to save small business in America.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today, Kaytee and Meredith are discussing: Bookish Moments: local indie bookstore support and the first video episode of Currently Reading Current Reads: each of us shares three books we’ve been reading lately. Deep Dive: books that are about pandemic and epidemic situations. You do you, reader. Book Presses: two books (one giant, one little) that will transport you to a different place and time As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you’d like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don’t scroll down!  *Please note that all book titles linked above are Amazon affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. Thanks for your support!*   . . . . . Bookish Moments: 5:35 - Patreon! 5:49 - Our Patreon video, free to everyone, Currently Reading COVID 19 edition! Current Reads: 8:06 - The Confession Club by Elizabeth Berg 10:56 - A Princess in Theory by Alyssa Cole 13:37 - The Dutch House by Ann Patchett 16:25 - Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry 19:14 - Rebound by Kwame Alexander 19:19 - The Crossover by Kwame Alexander 21:02 - Buried Deep by Margot Hunt - An Audible Original 23:45 - The Friend by Dorothy Koomson 24:09 - Episode 46 of Season 1 when listeners press books into our hands 24:23 - Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty Deep Dive - Books About Pandemics: 29:02 - Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel 30:14 - The Stand by Stephen King 30:44 - Wanderers by Chuck Wendig 31:46 - Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks 32:52 - As Bright As Heaven by Susan Meissner 33:15 - Get Well Soon by Jennifer Schmidt… nope. Jennifer Wright. Bad notes! 34:05 - Blindness by Jose Saramago 34:48 - The Murmur of Bees by Sofia Segovia 35:08 - The Hot Zone by Richard Preston 35:33 - The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton 35:59 - The Girl in Red by Christina Henry 36:24 - Bird Box by Josh Malerman 36:45 - The Last One by Alexandra Oliva 36:53 - Interview with Alexandra 37:52 - The Book of M by Peng Shepherd 38:37 - Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank 38:56 - Dry by Neal and Jerrod Shusterman 39:00 - Scythe by Neal Shusterman 39:39 - Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker 40:56 - The Road by Cormac McCarthy Books We Want to Press Into Your Hands: 42:06 - The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet 43:49 - It’s a TRILOGY - World Without End (#2) and Column of Fire (#3) 44:29 - News of the World by Paulette Giles

When you're searching for something new to watch on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu or even Shudder, search no further: subscribe to Man Bites Film. We bring you a comedic conversation about movies streaming on the main services. Our twisted humor is brought to you by William Phoenix, the man that taps his way into your heart one pun at a time, with his obsession of Harry Potter and Marvel; then the film snob of the group, Luis Lacau, that will bleed his film heart out for Kubrick and Lord of the Rings, but nothing else; finally our host with not the most, Branden Lacau. He's the ringmaster to our circus or the driver of the dumpster fire, keeping us on track, but will always stop to weeb out on AnimeOutbreak is a 1995 American medical disaster film directed by Wolfgang Petersen and based on Richard Preston's nonfiction book The Hot Zone.[1] It stars Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo, Morgan Freeman and Donald Sutherland, and co-stars Cuba Gooding Jr., Kevin Spacey and Patrick Dempsey.The film focuses on an outbreak of a fictional Ebola-like virus, Motaba, in Zaire and later in a small town in the United States. It is primarily set in the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the fictional town of Cedar Creek, California. Outbreak's plot speculates how far military and civilian agencies might go to contain the spread of a deadly, contagious disease.Join our Man Bites Media Family every Friday as we bring you 5 films each week and the latest movie news.www.ManBitesFilm.com#Comedy #Horror #Netflixmovies #Amazonprime #Hulumovies #Luislacau #Manbitesmedia #Manbitesfilm #Brandenlacau #williamphoenix #Hulu #Shudder #Netflixoriginal #Hulu #Scifi #Comedies #Dramaseries #mbm #podcast #fandom #nerds #geeks #moviesreview #anime #miamireviews #newyorkmovies #Orlandomovies #castlevania #thegoodplace #theresuersdownunder

When you're searching for something new to watch on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu or even Shudder, search no further: subscribe to Man Bites Film. We bring you a comedic conversation about movies streaming on the main services. Our twisted humor is brought to you by William Phoenix, the man that taps his way into your heart one pun at a time, with his obsession of Harry Potter and Marvel; then the film snob of the group, Luis Lacau, that will bleed his film heart out for Kubrick and Lord of the Rings, but nothing else; finally our host with not the most, Branden Lacau. He's the ringmaster to our circus or the driver of the dumpster fire, keeping us on track, but will always stop to weeb out on AnimeOutbreak is a 1995 American medical disaster film directed by Wolfgang Petersen and based on Richard Preston's nonfiction book The Hot Zone.[1] It stars Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo, Morgan Freeman and Donald Sutherland, and co-stars Cuba Gooding Jr., Kevin Spacey and Patrick Dempsey.The film focuses on an outbreak of a fictional Ebola-like virus, Motaba, in Zaire and later in a small town in the United States. It is primarily set in the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the fictional town of Cedar Creek, California. Outbreak's plot speculates how far military and civilian agencies might go to contain the spread of a deadly, contagious disease.Join our Man Bites Media Family every Friday as we bring you 5 films each week and the latest movie news.www.ManBitesFilm.com#Comedy #Horror #Netflixmovies #Amazonprime #Hulumovies #Luislacau #Manbitesmedia #Manbitesfilm #Brandenlacau #williamphoenix #Hulu #Shudder #Netflixoriginal #Hulu #Scifi #Comedies #Dramaseries #mbm #podcast #fandom #nerds #geeks #moviesreview #anime #miamireviews #newyorkmovies #Orlandomovies #castlevania #thegoodplace #theresuersdownunder

The virus is upon us. Let’s talk it out. Anything talked about or ideas pondered during a world-wide pandemic are null and void until such time we all are allowed outside again and be with each other. It’s weird.

Due to the global pandemic it might be a good idea to revisit this gem from July of 2017.   Glove up folks, tonight’s double feature is Outbreak and Contagion. Eric loved Outbreak, Jason liked it, but Drew HATED it. Contagion, however, proved to be a hit with all the brothers. Drew tells an Agent Orange Story from 31:00 to 39:00 Contagion talk begins at 43:00 Jason has a car story at 1:30:00 The brothers reference Richard Preston’s “The Hot Zone,” and “Demon in the Freezer,” World War Z, The Real Wives of Orange County, Spaulding Grey, and the Weekly Infusion podcast. References: Logan Lucky trailer Weekly Infusion episode 30 with Dr James Fallon File length 1:42:30 File Size 94.1 MB Subscribe to us on iTunes Listen to us on Stitcher Like us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter Send your comments to show@notinacreepyway.com Visit the show website at www.notinacreepyway.com

Richard Preston is an extreme tree climber and describes discoveries in the canopy. Adam Minter claims that the changing face of the secondhand market reflects shifting values. Sarah Miller tells the story of the world's first surviving quintuplets. Jane Lancaster of Brown University tells us the real story of "Cheaper by the Dozen."

Episode 28 1995  “Rage” “Know Your Enemy”  Movie Outbreak -  Based on Richard Preston's “The Hot Zone”  The Virus is Airborne: While investigating a massive Motaba outbreak in a California town, Sam (Dustin Hoffman) brings the news to General William Ford (Morgan Freeman) that the virus has mutated and is airborne. Rene Russo, Cuba Gooding Jr., Kevin SPacey Donald Sutherland and Patric Depsey. The film focuses on an outbreak of a fictional Ebola-like virus, Motaba, in Zaire and later in a small town in the United States. It is primarily set in the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the fictional town of Cedar Creek, California. Outbreak's plot speculates how far military and civilian agencies might go to contain the spread of a deadly, contagious disease. The film, released on March 10, 1995, was a box-office success and Spacey won two awards for his performance. A real-life outbreak of the Ebola virus was occurring in Zaire when the film was released.Congo The Ebola virus kills 244 Africans in Kikwit, Zaire in Central Africa. Russia is hit by a 7.6 magnitude earthquake killing at least 2000 people CoronaVirus  WTF! In Rhode Island next door. Airborne, be careful watch your parents and older friends. Ben Carson renowned Neurosurgeon who is now theUnited States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development “Quote” Trending now Read: Tom Steyer drops out of the race for the presidency. Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg drops out. Oklahoma City Bombing Waco Texas April 19th 8:50 AM Timothy McVeigh drives the truck filled with explosives setting 2 timers to set bomb off and parked the Ryder truck in a drop-off zone situated under the building's day-care center, At 9:02 am the truck, containing ammonium nitrate fertilizer, nitromethane, and diesel fuel mixture, detonated in front of the north side of the nine-story Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. Hundreds of people were killed or injured. One third of the building was destroyed by the explosion, Domestic terrorist bomb attack on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City killing 168 and injuring more than 680 others Cost Of Living 1995 How Much things cost in 1995 Yearly Inflation Rate USA 2.81% Year End Close Dow Jones Industrial Average 5117 Interest Rates Year End Federal Reserve 8.50% Average Cost of new house $113,150.00 Average Income per year $35,900.00 Average Monthly Rent $550.00 Cost of a gallon of Gas $1.09 US Postage Stamp 32 cents Average cost of new car $15,500.00 Loaf of Bread $2.02 Ground Coffee per IB$4.07 Loaf of Bread $1.15 Dozen Eggs 87 cents. "All Roads Lead Here" Bobby Couto --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thebobbycoutoshow/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thebobbycoutoshow/support

Episode 28 1995  “Rage” “Know Your Enemy”  Movie Outbreak -  Based on Richard Preston's “The Hot Zone”  The Virus is Airborne: While investigating a massive Motaba outbreak in a California town, Sam (Dustin Hoffman) brings the news to General William Ford (Morgan Freeman) that the virus has mutated and is airborne. Rene Russo, Cuba Gooding Jr., Kevin SPacey Donald Sutherland and Patric Depsey. The film focuses on an outbreak of a fictional Ebola-like virus, Motaba, in Zaire and later in a small town in the United States. It is primarily set in the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the fictional town of Cedar Creek, California. Outbreak's plot speculates how far military and civilian agencies might go to contain the spread of a deadly, contagious disease. The film, released on March 10, 1995, was a box-office success and Spacey won two awards for his performance. A real-life outbreak of the Ebola virus was occurring in Zaire when the film was released.Congo The Ebola virus kills 244 Africans in Kikwit, Zaire in Central Africa. Russia is hit by a 7.6 magnitude earthquake killing at least 2000 people CoronaVirus  WTF! In Rhode Island next door. Airborne, be careful watch your parents and older friends. Ben Carson renowned Neurosurgeon who is now theUnited States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development “Quote” Trending now Read: Tom Steyer drops out of the race for the presidency. Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg drops out. Oklahoma City Bombing Waco Texas April 19th 8:50 AM Timothy McVeigh drives the truck filled with explosives setting 2 timers to set bomb off and parked the Ryder truck in a drop-off zone situated under the building's day-care center, At 9:02 am the truck, containing ammonium nitrate fertilizer, nitromethane, and diesel fuel mixture, detonated in front of the north side of the nine-story Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. Hundreds of people were killed or injured. One third of the building was destroyed by the explosion, Domestic terrorist bomb attack on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City killing 168 and injuring more than 680 others Cost Of Living 1995 How Much things cost in 1995 Yearly Inflation Rate USA 2.81% Year End Close Dow Jones Industrial Average 5117 Interest Rates Year End Federal Reserve 8.50% Average Cost of new house $113,150.00 Average Income per year $35,900.00 Average Monthly Rent $550.00 Cost of a gallon of Gas $1.09 US Postage Stamp 32 cents Average cost of new car $15,500.00 Loaf of Bread $2.02 Ground Coffee per IB$4.07 Loaf of Bread $1.15 Dozen Eggs 87 cents. "All Roads Lead Here" Bobby Couto --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thebobbycoutoshow/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thebobbycoutoshow/support

Discover common practices that persist in the hospital wards despite no proven benefit! We review how potassium replacement goals should not drive you bananas, extra oxygen should not give you comfort, and how you should maybe calm down with antipsychotics for delirium. Join returning guests: high-value care specialist Dr. Lenny Feldman (@DocLennyF, Johns Hopkins) and tweetorialist Dr. Tony Breu (@tony_breu, Harvard) as they walk us through round 3 of “Things We Do for No ReasonTM. SHM members can claim CME-MOC credit at https://www.shmlearningportal.org/curbsiders (CME goes live at 0900 ET on the episode’s release date). Note: The planners and faculty for this activity have no relevant relationships or conflicts to disclose. Show Notes | Subscribe | Spotify | Swag! | Top Picks | Mailing List | thecurbsiders@gmail.com Credits Written and Produced by: Burton H. Shen MD, Justin Berk, MD MPH MBA Infographic: Cover Art: Hosts: Justin Berk MD MPH MBA; Stuart Brigham MD; Matthew Watto MD, FACP; Paul Williams MD, FaCP Editor: Matthew Watto MD, FACP (written materials); Clair Morgan of Nodderly.com (audio) Guest: Lenny Feldman MD, Tony Breu MD Sponsors The Society of Hospital Medicine Hospital Medicine 2020 (HM20) is the Society of Hospital Medicine’s Annual Conference April 15th through the 18th in sunny San Diego. Don’t miss the largest hospital medicine meeting. Register now at https://shmannualconference.org/ and use the code CURBSIDERS to receive a $50 discount. Primary Care Internal Medicine of Ithaca Join a well established practice in beautiful upstate New York near the finger lakes and wine country! You'll have flexible hours and the ability to take the time you need with patients! Contact Dr. Ann Costello arcostello@gmail.com to find out more about this incredible opportunity to join the team at Primary Care Internal Medicine of Ithaca https://www.primarycareinternalmedicineofithaca.com/.  Time Stamps 00:00 Sponsors -SHM’s Annual Conference, HM20 (use code CURBSIDERS) and Primary Care Internal Medicine of Ithaca (email: arcostello@gmail.com) 00:38 Intro, disclaimer, guest bio 02:10 Guest one-liners 03:35 Picks of the Week*: Knives Out (film), Priced Out by Uwe E. Reinhardt; Crisis in the Red Zone by Richard Preston; CardioNerds podcast; Outbreak (film); Teaching Physiology on the Fly (faculty development course) 07:55 Sponsors -SHM’s Annual Conference, HM20 (use code CURBSIDERS) and Primary Care Internal Medicine of Ithaca (email: arcostello@gmail.com) 09:30 Case of Eric Lokay; Repleting potassium. Is it necessary to “buff the lytes” 20:30 Pathophysiology of hypokalemia; Final recommendations on potassium repletion 24:30 Supplemental oxygen; pO2 vs total oxygen content; Oxygen, vasoconstriction and potential harms 30:33 Evidence of harm from supplemental O2 35:00 Tony’s recommendations for use of supplemental O2 41:55 Case of delirium; Definition and diagnosis 46:20 Can we prevent delirium? Melatonin and ramelteon 50:33 Should we use antipsychotics? Benzodiazepines?; What should we do instead? 58:25 Take home points, Outro and a terrible pun *The Curbsiders participates in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising commissions by linking to Amazon. Simply put, if you click on our Amazon.com links and buy something we earn a (very) small commission, yet you don’t pay any extra. Disclosures Dr. Feldman and Dr. Breu report no relevant financial disclosures. The Curbsiders report no relevant financial disclosures.  Citation Feldman L, Breu T, Shen BH, Berk JL, Williams PN, Brigham SK, Watto MF. “#195 TWDFNRTM 3: Potassium, Oxygen, and antipsychotics”. The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast. https://thecurbsiders.com/episode-list. February 17, 2020.

In this episode, South China Morning Post reporter Laurie Chen and bestselling science writer Richard Preston talk about the global panic over coronavirus, China's response, and how societies defend themselves against viral outbreaks like Ebola. Chen talks to Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell about how misinformation about coronaviruses spreads on social media; Preston discusses his nonfiction books The Hot Zone and Crisis in the Red Zone. To hear the full episode, subscribe to the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). Guests: Laurie Chen Richard Preston Selected readings for the episode: Laurie Chen Outbreak has stoked a rise in xenophobia, Chinese living abroad say Will China's city lockdowns stop the spread of the coronavirus? Wuhan doctors beaten up, overworked, under supplied Left at home disabled boy dies after carer isolated for virus checks China's ‘demon' virus leaves experts at odds on when infection rate will slow China coronavirus: YouTube and Twitter show realities of life in lockdown Live from Wuhan: millions tune in to watch China build hospitals China sends in military doctors to help fight coronavirus outbreak Wuhan coronavirus confirmed in 29 of China's 31 provinces China coronavirus: rush is on in Wuhan to build treatment centre for up to 1,000 patients Scientists debate whether China coronavirus came from bats or snakes Debunking the myths around China's deadly coronavirus outbreak How Taiwan Strait tensions could hamper efforts to fight Wuhan virus Richard Preston Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus The Hot Zone: a six-part National Geographic mini-series Others To Be Asian With a Face Mask During the Coronavirus Outbreak (KQED) A Virus's Journey Across China (The Daily podcast) "Wuhan coronavirus" and the racist art of naming a virus by Marie Myung-Ok Lee (Salon) South China Morning Post coverage and interviews Coronavirus: Everything you need to know in a visual explainer (updated daily)  Coronavirus: A View From China Coronavirus outbreak Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The upsurge of Coronavirus reminded the Watching America crew of a recent guest, namely, bestselling author Richard Preston (The Hot Zone, Crisis in the Red Zone, The Cobra Event). He visited with us again to share his take on the developing situation as Coronavirus spreads. Also included is a portion of his initial interview with Dr. Alan Campbell regarding how well-prepared we are for the next plague, and from where it will likely arise. Not an episode for the feint of heart.

Richard Preston teaches us about the would above our heads in tree canopies. Hear the story of how Peter Chan went from engineer to bonsai tree artist. Gabriel Brownstein shares his experience with receiving and promoting open heart surgery. Harvard's Jeff Karp tells us all about a new surgical glue to literally mend broken hearts.

New year, new you! JTW is back to offer some hot tips on living your best life in 2020. Might as well, since the world is burning and our time is likely running out. Fires, floods, impending war.. this year is starting off with a bang. Feel better about it all by joining the JTW Book Club in reading The Hot Zone by Richard Preston. It's an oldie (but a goodie) about at least one horrible thing that isn't happening right now... at least not yet. 

Bestselling author Richard Preston of The Hot Zone fame talks about how the well-prepared we are for the next plague, and from where it will likely arise. His latest book, Crisis in the Red Zone, was just published. Not an episode for the feint of heart.

Richard and I have an open discussion at the So Percussion Summer Institute at Princeton about his work and process as an author and talk about his new book “Crisis in the Red Zone”. Richard is the author of the groundbreaking book about Ebola, “The Hot Zone.”

1997-12-17 - Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell - Richard Preston - Biological Warfare

The Democratic Republic of Congo is experiencing the second-largest outbreak of Ebola. As of June 1, the World Health Organization confirmed 1,900 cases with 1,245 confirmed deaths. An international response team from Battelle’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases’ Integrated Research Facility traveled to the DRC to help train local responders on testing Ebola samples. The team also goes to Liberia to work on ongoing clinical trials. Bonnie Dighero-Kemp and Gregory Kocher join producer Heather Mongilio in the podcast studio to speak about their work with Ebola. Fort Detrick’s connection to Ebola extends back to the late 1970s, when Ebola was discovered. Later in the episode, Dr. John Dye, with the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, joins Mongilio to talk about the hemorrhagic fever and the advances USAMRIID has made. Finally, Cols. Nancy and Jerry Jaax, who worked for USAMRIID in the 1980s and were featured in Richard Preston’s “The Hot Zone,” now a National Geographic Channel show, will speak with Mongilio.

Welcome to Our Kid's Asleep! 3 Things to possibly toast to: Capturing the Unicorn. Richard Preston's account of "The Unicorn Tapestries" and the incredible story of how the Pi brothers came to save the day! Read Richard Preston's work at the New Yorker. Schitt's Creek. The delightful show from the Eugene Levys make for a good time on Netflix. Our take on it and the joy of watching rich people be poor for once. Thank you for this one, Canada. That Acoustic 90s Playlist on Spotify. Listen here, that one brought back a flurry of memories including saucy movies like Cruel Intentions, the glory days of MTV and VH1, and other repressed memories we found down the rabbit hole. What should talk about next? Drop us a line at our brand new email ourkidsasleep@gmail.com! Peace,J & MFind out more at https://oka.pinecast.co

Richard Preston is the Author of The Hot Zone, Panic in Level 4, The Wild Trees, and The Demon in the Freezer. His work about contagions and emergent viruses is fascinating. We sit in his studio and discuss his current work about the Ebola virus.

（曹越亦对本音频的剪辑有贡献） 长春长生疫苗引发的一系列丑闻已有半月，所引发的愤怒和焦虑，似已被别的热点所掩盖。 但，是否不打疫苗就躲过了风险；疫苗接种率的高低对一个社群究竟意味着什么；整个医疗卫生制度是否在这些事故后有所改进……这些都不应该被忽视或者忘记，而应该被接着讨论。 我们本期请到了徐卓君。她在中国做了十年的健康医疗报道，现工作于丁香园，依然关注公共卫生领域话题，并因此也在打理一个很棒的公众号“偶尔治愈”。此前，她在《南方都市报》工作。她也是个潜水爱好者。 Enjoy！ 相关信息 1. 一家疫苗公司的生产造假风波，是怎样瓦解了我们对国产疫苗的信任？ (https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/2J3Ls5UKVy108ffP2Xek6Q) 2. 群体免疫，是指人或动物群体中的很大一部分因接种疫苗而获得免疫力，使得其他没有免疫力的个体因此受到保护而不被传染。 3. 《勾勒姆医生：作为医学的科学与作为救助手段的医学》 (https://book.douban.com/subject/4715529/) 4. 《他们应当行走：美国往事之小儿麻痹症》 (https://book.douban.com/subject/26581915/) 5. 《免疫：接种》(On Immunity: An Inoculation) ,欧拉·比斯(Eula Biss)著 (https://book.douban.com/subject/26842454/) 6. 《埃博拉浩劫》,理查德·普雷斯顿(Richard Preston)著 (https://book.douban.com/subject/26364730/) 7. 谁来监管监管者丨纽约时报 (https://cn.nytimes.com/opinion/20130322/cc22wangqiang/) 8. 强生婴儿爽生粉陷致癌风波 (https://cn.nytstyle.com/health/20160524/t24well-babypowder/) Special Guest: 徐卓君.

Do you ever feel like you’re figuring things out in a very different way from everyone else? As we always say here at Podcast A Vet, everyone has their own trajectory and their own path. Today’s guest talks to us about how his travels in South America gave him the final nudge to commit to becoming a vet. Brent Fink is a veterinary nurse and applying to vet school. But before that, he worked in the restaurant industry for years, and spent a year and a half volunteering on farms in South America. Today he talks to us about the influence his parents, both working in human medicine, had on his path towards becoming a vet, as well as how lessons he learned in the restaurant industry have informed his approach to working in vet medicine. He also talks about the vet school application process. What unique experiences informed your decision to become a vet? How did you keep your mindset healthy while applying to vet school?   In this episode: How volunteering on farms in South America offered Brent clarity on wanting to be a vet Similarities between the restaurant industry and working in veterinary medicine The importance of healthy mindset when applying to vet school and facing rejection Ways to improve your application if you are rejected the first time you apply   Quotes: “Be hungry. I didn’t necessarily want to be a receptionist, but I knew that regardless of the position I would learn a ton.” 26:45 On application rejections: “That kind of becomes part of you and part of your story, and figuring out how to rebound is also part of your story.” 33:15 On well-roundedness: “I’ve got this vision of a rock being tumbled around in the surf. If you spend enough time getting knocked around, that will eventually create a well-rounded something or other.” 47:38   Links: Episode 18 with Nina Garbino Episode 22 with Julie Lenoch    Books mentioned: Demon in the Freezer by Richard Preston The Hot Zone by Richard Preston    Find the full show notes here  Keep up with everything Podcast A Vet  Follow Podcast A Vet on Facebook | Twitter | Instagram Join our free community of dedicated vet professionals looking to improve their practices and lives in our free Facebook community!

This week, Sarah and Amelia fantasize about an alternative ending to Richard Preston's nonfiction work The Hot Zone wherein the Ebola virus in Reston actually does decimate their whole hometown, at last solving the problem of Northern Virginia traffic. Amelia spreads disease all through Europe. Sarah invents Bacteria Jesus. At no point do we say "Here's out hot take on The Hot Zone", or quote the Celebrity Jeopardy skit that Amelia wouldn't shut up about for the past two weeks.

Hosted by Gigi Blackshear, this groundbreaking show brings you encouragement, support and the knowledge that you are not alone in your struggles and provides evidence that there is "Life After".

Hosted by Gigi Blackshear, this groundbreaking show brings you encouragement, support and the knowledge that you are not alone in your struggles and provides evidence that there is "Life After".

Welcome to another episode of Take the Black, Winter is Coming’s Game of Thrones podcast. This week, we are joined by Dan Selke and Richard Preston, and of course, the lovely Sarah is there are well, as we recap Game of Thrones season 7, episodes 1-4.Our topics:We all agreed the cold open in the premiere episode, "Dragonstone," was the best one in the entire series.We also agree that Jon and Sansa should have talked before meeting with the Northern Lords, as their arguing openly made them look foolish.Euron Greyjoy was a surprising delight, especially after his dull appearance in season 6.Sarah really liked the poop montage.During episode 702, "Stormborn," Corey Smith and Sarah talk about grumpy Daenerys.We all loved the war room scene at Dragonstone, as it was extremely empowering for women to have the leaders of each force to be a woman.Again, Jon and Sansa arguing in public was foolhardy.We loved the cinematography and amazing action from that action packed Greyjoy sea battle.Episode 703, "The Queen's Justice" was neat and so too was the first ever meeting of Dany and Jon.Sansa proved herself to be a fine regent of the North, in Jon's absence.The highpoint of the episode was Diana Rigg as Olenna Tyrel going out like a boss. "Tell Cersei. I want her to know it was me."In episode 704, "The Spoils of War," Bran came home and had a very muted reunion with Sansa.We all agree the high point, obviously was "The Loot Train Battle," and we discuss it in detail.

Glove up folks, tonight’s double feature is Outbreak and Contagion. Eric loved Outbreak, Jason liked it, but Drew HATED it. Contagion, however, proved to be a hit with all the brothers. Drew tells an Agent Orange Story from 31:00 to 39:00 Contagion talk begins at 43:00 Jason has a car story at 1:30:00 The brothers reference Richard Preston’s “The Hot Zone,” and “Demon in the Freezer,” World War Z, The Real Wives of Orange County, Spaulding Grey, and the Weekly Infusion podcast.   References: Logan Lucky trailer Weekly Infusion episode 30 with Dr James Fallon   File length 1:42:30 File Size 94.1 MB   Subscribe to us on iTunes Listen to us on Stitcher Like us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter Send your comments to show@notinacreepyway.com Visit the show website at www.notinacreepyway.com

"You have to love its simplicity. It’s one billionth our size and it’s beating us." After making Das Boot, Wolfgang Peterson came to Hollywood and began a new period in his life making big spectacle films, often action thrillers. Unfortunately, that meant when it came time to make his 1995 film Outbreak – stemmed from the world’s curiosity in the Ebola outbreak in Africa paired with the release of Richard Preston’s article “Crisis in the Hot Zone” and subsequent book – the powers that be felt that it too needed to be an action thriller. True, compared to something like The Andromeda Strain, a little more action could really help a story out, but they really seemed to go the wrong direction with this film, adding in an infuriating military conspiracy subplot to really kick things up a notch. Join us – Pete Wright and Andy Nelson – as we continue our Disease Films series with Peterson’s ‘95 film Outbreak.  We talk about why the film fell short on this recent watch, even though it seemed to hold up relatively well when we first saw it in ‘95. We chat about how the project came to be and why the film version of Preston’s article and book never got made. We look at all the wonderful actors in this movie and debate whose characters are the weakest. We chat about the nature of Ebola and the various outbreaks the world has seen with it (including a recent record-breaking outbreak starting in ‘13). And we ponder Peterson’s Hollywood directing, wondering if he’s still got another Das Boot in him.  It’s a flawed film, albeit an entertaining one with a great cast. It’s fun to watch but also infuriating. And it’s really fun to talk about, so check it out then tune in this week! Film Sundries Watch this film: iTunes • Amazon Script Transcript Original theatrical trailer Original poster artwork Art of the Title Flickchart Letterboxd Stranger Things Props Trailers of the Week Andy's Trailer: Wonder Woman — "If DC came out with this before BvS:DoJ, it’s possible they’d be giving Marvel a real run for their money. Everything about this looks like they’re making the right choices. I can’t wait to see Gal Gadot bring it to the big screen!" Pete's Trailer: Sky Sharks — "Yeah. This is Sky Sharks. We talked about it last week on the show. It’s in contention for entry into the WolfCop/Kung Fury Hall of Fame. See this trailer."

"You have to love its simplicity. It's one billionth our size and it's beating us." After making Das Boot, Wolfgang Peterson came to Hollywood and began a new period in his life making big spectacle films, often action thrillers. Unfortunately, that meant when it came time to make his 1995 film Outbreak – stemmed from the world's curiosity in the Ebola outbreak in Africa paired with the release of Richard Preston's article “Crisis in the Hot Zone” and subsequent book – the powers that be felt that it too needed to be an action thriller. True, compared to something like The Andromeda Strain, a little more action could really help a story out, but they really seemed to go the wrong direction with this film, adding in an infuriating military conspiracy subplot to really kick things up a notch. Join us – Pete Wright and Andy Nelson – as we continue our Disease Films series with Peterson's ‘95 film Outbreak.  We talk about why the film fell short on this recent watch, even though it seemed to hold up relatively well when we first saw it in ‘95. We chat about how the project came to be and why the film version of Preston's article and book never got made. We look at all the wonderful actors in this movie and debate whose characters are the weakest. We chat about the nature of Ebola and the various outbreaks the world has seen with it (including a recent record-breaking outbreak starting in ‘13). And we ponder Peterson's Hollywood directing, wondering if he's still got another Das Boot in him.  It's a flawed film, albeit an entertaining one with a great cast. It's fun to watch but also infuriating. And it's really fun to talk about, so check it out then tune in this week! Film Sundries Watch this film: iTunes • Amazon Script Transcript Original theatrical trailer Original poster artwork Art of the Title Flickchart Letterboxd Stranger Things Props Trailers of the Week Andy's Trailer: Wonder Woman — "If DC came out with this before BvS:DoJ, it's possible they'd be giving Marvel a real run for their money. Everything about this looks like they're making the right choices. I can't wait to see Gal Gadot bring it to the big screen!" Pete's Trailer: Sky Sharks — "Yeah. This is Sky Sharks. We talked about it last week on the show. It's in contention for entry into the WolfCop/Kung Fury Hall of Fame. See this trailer."

Dr. Carlos chats with E.G. Vallianatos. He is the author of five books, including Harvest of Devastation and This Land is their Land, as well as over two hundred articles, including recent pieces in Alternet and Truth-Out.org. He is a blogger for The Huffington Post. Previously, he worked in risk evaluation at the EPA for twenty-five years, and now lives in Claremont, California. His co-author McKay Jenkins has been writing about humans and the natural world for just as long. His most recent book is What's Gotten Into Us: Staying Healthy in a Toxic World, was hailed as "a Silent Spring for the human body" (--Richard Preston, author of The Hot Zone). Jenkins is the Cornelius Tilghman Professor of English, Journalism and Environmental Humanities at the University of Delaware, where he has won the Excellence in Teaching Award.Imagine walking into a restaurant and finding chlorinated hydrocarbon pesticides, or neonicotinoid insecticides listed in the description of your entree. They may not be printed in the menu, but many are in your food.These are a few of the literally millions of pounds of approved synthetic substances dumped into the environment every day, not just in the US but around the world. They seep into our water supply, are carried thousands of miles by wind and rain from the site of application, remain potent long after they are deposited, and constitute, in the words of one scientist, "biologic death bombs with a delayed time fuse and which may prove to be, in the long run, as dangerous to the existence of mankind as the arsenal of atom bombs.†? All of these poisons are sanctioned--or in some cases, ignored--by the EPA.

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Mark Lawson talks to novelists who have taken on another writer's characters, including P D James, who wrote a Pride and Prejudice sequel, Anthony Horowitz, creator of a new Sherlock Holmes story, Jeffery Deaver, author of the latest James Bond book, and Frank Cottrell Boyce, who took on another of Ian Fleming's creations - Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. And what happens to a novel left unfinished when a writer dies? Incomplete manuscripts left by British novelist Beryl Bainbridge and American writer Michael Crichton were posthumously brought to publication this year, with the help of editor Brendan King and scientific journalist Richard Preston respectively. They discuss how they approached this poignant task, and A N Wilson, writer and friend of Beryl Bainbridge, reflects on the process. Producer Katie Langton.

'Kill Bin Laden' ; Ryu Mitsuse, '10 Billion Days and 100 Billion Nights' ; Michael Crichton and Richard Preston, 'Micro'

In episode 22 of This Week in Virology, host Vincent Racaniello and guest host Chris Upton, a professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology at the University of Victoria in Vancouver, Canada, converse about hepatitis B in India, AIDS gene therapy with a ribozyme, antibodies that neutralize many influenza virus strains, killing tumors with vaccinia virus, myxoma virus of rabbits, and the Viral Bioinformatics Resource Center. Links in the episode indlude: Hepatitis B outbreak in India AIDS gene therapy clinical trial Antibodies that neutralize many influenza virus strains (papers 1 and 2) Vaccinia virus as an oncolytic agent Mutations that attenuate myxoma virus in rabbits Viral Bioinformatics Resource Center Science blog of the week: The VBRC blog by Chris Upton Science podcast pick of the week: Nova ScienceNow Science book of the week: The Hot Zone by Richard Preston

From killer viruses to the infinite digits of pi, science is continually confronting the unknown. But, what science uncovers may be unsettling at times. On this program, Richard Preston discussed journeys to the edge of science in Panic in Level 4.