![]() Other scientists, using more conventional methods, have reported similar collapses everywhere from Puerto Rican jungles to nature reserves in Germany. Twenty years later, the results showed something deadly serious: Collisions with insects had declined 80 percent along the first roadway, and a staggering 97 percent along the second. When the ecologist Anders Pape Møller began systematically driving two Danish roads in 1996 and counting the windshield splats, many people dismissed his project as a lark. Now, we’re far more likely to watch those same landscapes pass by through unblemished glass, mile after empty mile. Entomologists call it “the windshield effect,” a relatable metric neatly summed up by a question: When was the last time you had to clean bug splatter from your windshield? This ritual was once an inevitable coda to any long drive. ![]() ![]() THE INSECT CRISIS: The Fall of the Tiny Empires That Run the World, by Oliver MilmanĪnyone with a car has gathered data on insect declines. ![]()
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![]() ![]() There are currently two known genera of them, the Marburgvirus and Ebolavirus, and are mainly found in different species of fruit bats and monkeys. While Preston focuses heavily on the contained outbreak at the Hazleton Research Products facility in Reston in 19, he does provide a shorter account of the previous outbreaks of viruses of a similar strain of the thread-shaped filoviruses. Graphic portrayal of events lends itself for the adaptation to the big screen. The letter, the movie would have been just as frightening, and the book’s Had Petersen decided to follow Preston’s account to The ecological balance is disturbed, potentially leading to a spread with The plots divergeĭrastically, but the common ground is the fact that viruses jump to humans when ![]() Story told by Richard Preston about a contained outbreak of a strain of theĮbola virus in a small Virginia town called Reston. Plotline is heavily fictionalized and changed, the inspiration came from a true Later, the monkey scratches a pet shop owner, whileĭempsey goes on to infect his girlfriend and next thing you know, outbreak. Infecting him with a mysterious Motaba virus that was thought to have beenĮradicated decades earlier. The monkey sneezes directly into Dempsey’s mouth, Home in Africa when Patrick Dempsey poaches a capuchin and trades him in the Petersen’s 1995 movie Outbreak, a deadly virus escapes its rainforest Zone: A Terrifying True Story, Richard Preston, Random House, 1994, pp. ![]() ![]() Mary Wollstonecraft's work was received with a mixture of admiration and outrage - Walpole called her 'a hyena in petticoats' - yet it established her as the mother of modern feminism. Passionate and forthright, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman attacked the prevailing view of docile, decorative femininity, and instead laid out the principles of emancipation: an equal education for girls and boys, an end to prejudice, and for women to become defined by their profession, not their partner. Mary Wollstonecraft’s 1792 Vindication of the Rights of Women is an incendiary attack on the place of women in 18th-century society. ![]() While living alone in revolutionary Paris, she had a relationship with an American entrepreneur, Gilbert Imlay, which resulted in the birth of her first daughter, Fanny. ![]() Writing in an age when the call for the rights of man had brought revolution to America and France, Mary Wollstonecraft produced her own declaration of female independence in 1792. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, which she wrote in six weeks in 1792, was a sequel of sorts. ![]() ![]() Reckless, steel-willed and brilliant, Joan has survived a childhood steeped in both joy and violence to claim an extraordinary - and fragile - position at the head of the French army. Yet out of the chaos, an unlikely heroine emerges. ![]() Saint? France is mired in a losing war against England. Chen Joan as a beguiling, fully human mix of wariness and confidence, and fiercely protective of those she loves' Guardian *Times Best Historical Novels of July 2022 Pick* *The Week Best Novels of 2022 Pick* *** Girl. If you liked Ariadne, then this has to be your next read' Red Magazine *'*Brilliant. a hypnotic heroine for our time' Telegraph 'Chen's Joan roars off the page. ![]() Richly imagined, poignant and inspiring' Jennifer Saint, author of Ariadne 'Chen earns the comparison thanks to her vivid, visceral and boldly immediate storytelling. A stunning feminist reimagining of the life of Joan of Arc - perfect for fans of Cecily, Ariadne and Matrix 'It is as if the author has crept inside a statue and breathed a soul into it, re-creating Joan of Arc as a woman for our time' Hilary Mantel, twice Booker Prize-winning author of The Mirror & the Light 'A glorious, sweeping novel. ![]() |