Pull your head back.” But I just really wanted to lean into this experience of looking at this parasite. She kept saying, “Pull your head back. And it’s quite difficult because of that to lean into a microscope. I don’t know if you can see from where you are. One of them, as I pointed out not at all humbly I’m afraid to the researcher, I have extremely long eyelashes. There are several reasons why this was difficult for me. So if you’ll forgive me I’m going to try to just gross you out just a little bit, just to maybe wake you up.Įarlier this week I visited the National Zoo here in Washington DC, where an extraordinarily patient researcher tried to show me samples of a tiny nematodal skin parasite-a little worm-that appears to be infecting an animal species that was already facing extinction. ![]() And I think the two-hour mark of conferences was the point at which I faded, to the extent that I was paying attention before. Jacob Brogan: Before I shifted to writing I was an academic.
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