May 07
Last week we wrote on the strange connection between malaria and slavery, a subject highlighted in a lecture by science writer Charles Mann. In the program titled Living in the Homogenocene, Mann discusses the impact of European colonization in the 15th and 16th centuries and its later influence on the early American economy. The following …
May 04
Science writer Charles Mann looks at Columbus’s “discovery” of America through the unique lens of biology and epidemiology. The author of 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus and 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created uncovers a Pre-Columbian world that was far from the untouched wilderness of history books. Native Americans shaped and …