Cover of the print book Pathenogenesis by Jonathan Kennedy showing what I presume is a painting or illustration of some old timey scene in which there is an invading army and a lot of people sick and dying.

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   Jessamyn (jessamyn@glammr.us)'s status on Saturday, 12-Oct-2024 00:26:20 JST Jessamyn

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   Book 106: Pathogenesis, A History of the World in Eight Plagues. Definitely a book up my street. This dense discussion of science and history talks about how some major world shifts happened because of situations involving illness and widespread disease. Like who was able to take over whom because disease had ravaged the part of the population who might fight back. Why some colonized areas get settled and some just get resource-extracted. What helps and what doesn't. A great read.