Its really hard to colonize someplace when you send people there, they contract malaria and they die. Quinine was the first effective treatment of malaria. After that, Africa stopped being the “white man’s grave” and another British colony.
This is the biojournalism.com companion podcast for release on 3-15-2008. In the podcast we cover a portion of the science news from the last week in a quiz style format. This weeks contents:
Scientists have figured out how DEET (a popular bug repellent) works.
EPA regulation is clamping down on train, ship, and ferry air pollution
A study [...]
Kallen is currently pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Biology and Journalism at the University of Oregon and, of course, writing a blog.