Will Viruses Save Us From Superbugs?

[December 8, 2016 Chapter Two: Heroes at Work] [READ ISSUE] Dear Nautilus Reader, When antibiotics fail us and superbugs start to spread, who can save us? The hero in this tale may surprise you: Viruses. That story, plus the great physicist Freeman Dyson, FARC rebels and ecology, a habitable Venus, and team-as-hero in the search for the Higgs, all on Nautilus this week. Best, The Nautilus Team [info@nautil.us] [Will Viruses Save Us From Superbugs? When antibiotics failed a severely ill patient, it was a pond virus that saved him. By Katherine Walter] For years, Ali Khodadoust walked around with his heart literally open to the world. [My Life with the Physics Dream Team Freeman Dyson on working with the greatest physicists of the 20th century. By Steve Paulson] One gets the sense that Freeman Dyson has seen everything. [The Queer Ecology of the Colombian Civil War Meet the transgendered ecologist helping her country move past years of conflict. By Jennie Erin Smith] The former Luis Guillermo Baptiste began her transformation into Brigitte in the mid 1990s, when she was part of a cadre of scientists helping to establish the Bogota-based Humboldt Institute, a hybrid public-private biodiversity research foundation. [The Romantic Venus We Never Knew Venus used to be as fit for life as Earth. By David Grinspoon] On the day that I was born—winter solstice, 1959—a headline in Life magazine proclaimed “Target Venus: There May be Life There!” [Who Really Found the Higgs Boson The real genius in the Nobel Prize-winning discovery is not who you think it is. By Neal Hartman] To those who say that there is no room for genius in modern science because everything has been discovered, Fabiola Gianotti has a sharp reply. [READ ISSUE] NautilusThink, Inc. 233 Broadway Suite 720 New York, NY 10279 [Add us to your address book] Copyright © 2016 NautilusThink, Inc., All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in at our website. [unsubscribe from this list]   [update subscription preferences]Â