Saturday, August 21, 2021

Anthrax - poor man’s nuclear bomb

 You can study accounting, says Daniel Mendelsohn. But when your father dies, your accounting degree won't help you process that experience   Grief 

With Covid still surging, who's in the mood for TV's upcoming Hot Zone: Anthrax?

CARLA SINCLAIR 

In 2019, pre-Covid, National Geographic produced the dramatic Hot Zone television miniseries about a 1989 semi-accurate Ebola scare in the US (based on Richard Preston's 1994 novel of the same name). Its release came in the days when the bio-thriller genre was on par with horror — an adrenaline rush that, practically speaking, was almost as fantastical as a zombie tale (which, technically, is both horror and bio-thriller). 

Now, post-Covid, National Geo is teasing us with their second season, Hot Zone: Anthrax, which premieres in November. The dramatic 6-episode series is about the 2001 anthrax attacks that infected 22 people, killing five. But I wonder, is a pandemic-fatigued audience that's still in the thick of Covid ready for another Hot Zone? Knowing me, I'll watch it (Is there a bio-thriller I haven't seen?). This is, after all, about a terrorist attack rather than a contagious virus. But still, the usual pep that comes with the knowledge of an upcoming bio-thriller just isn't there.


Wealthy people calling for a tougher lockdown got what they wanted, at no cost to them



Anthrax genome reveals secrets about a Soviet bioweapons accident



UNWANTED MEMORIES OF MY SISTER AGA'S GRAVE


Cold War River - Library Copy


Message from Vaclav Havel



After great pain, a formal feeling comes – (372)

After great pain, a formal feeling comes –
The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs –
The stiff Heart questions ‘was it He, that bore,’
And ‘Yesterday, or Centuries before’?

The Feet, mechanical, go round –
A Wooden way
Of Ground, or Air, or Ought –
Regardless grown,
A Quartz contentment, like a stone –

This is the Hour of Lead –
Remembered, if outlived,
As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow –
First – Chill – then Stupor – then the letting go –


Posted by at