I read Freakonomics while stranded at an airport for a few hours a couple years ago. Enjoyed it thoroughly. This week, the editor of the New York Times‘ Freakonomics blog will be soliciting questions from readers about “The Fever.” My attempts to expose the freaky ironies and hidden sides of malaria will appear on their [...]
Here it is–for some reason I’m not able to embed it, but C-SPAN has the video of my Washington DC talk on The Fever in their online video archive.
http://www.c-spanarchives.org/program/294937-
It’s been brought to my attention–by Mark Powell, of Arlington, VA–that I misspoke during the lecture, and said that hundreds of thousands of French workers died of [...]
If you watch C-Span 2’s “BookTV” program, you’ll find me on the tube talking about The Fever this Sunday, August 22 at 8 pm (and also at 7:30 am on Sunday, and 5 am on Monday). For more info, see their website listing, here. I think they stream the videos on their website, too, so [...]
I gave a talk at the wonderful independent bookstore Politics & Prose in Washington, DC last night, to a packed house. It was a great audience which included at least a few malariologists and malaria historians, not to mention a bunch of people who’d survived the disease and were active in the fight against it. [...]
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