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Pleased to Meet Me: Genes, Germs, and the Curious Forces That Make Us Who We Are

Pleased to Meet Me: Genes, Germs, and the Curious Forces That Make Us Who We Are

An entertaining and accessible look into what makes people tick - how our genes, environment, and microbes shape our personality and behavior.

2019

Stories

Published in
Read or Die — HQ

A Common Parasite Could One Day Deliver Drugs To The Brain

How scientists are turning Toxoplasma gondii from foe into friend

Aug 7

Microscopic depiction of bacteria

Aug 7

Published in
Read or Die — HQ

Toxoplasma is a common parasite that causes birth defects — but the US doesn’t screen for it…

Imagine the shock of your baby being born with a swollen brain, blindness and debilitating seizures. Now imagine learning that these…

Jul 10

A pregnant woman sitting on a sofa with her cat

Jul 10

Published in
The Quantastic Journal

Is Our Fate Determined by Our Genes?

What the science of the self is teaching us about who we are and who we can be.

Jul 9

Is Our Fate Determined by Our Genes? What the science of the self is teaching us about who we are and who we can be.

Jul 9

Summertime can be germy: A microbiologist explains how to avoid getting sick at the barbecue, in…

Don’t let germs rain on your summer parade

Jun 11

Summertime can be germy: A microbiologist explains how to avoid getting sick at the barbecue, in…

Jun 11

Published in
Read or Die — HQ

How Worried Should You Be About Bacteria?

A microbiologist explains the bacteria featured in John Green’s “Turtles All the Way Down”

May 21

How Worried Should You Be About Bacteria?

May 21

Published in
Read or Die — HQ

How the Microbiome Can Create a Microbrewery

Gut microbes can get you drunk and damage your liver

May 3

How the Microbiome Can Create a Microbrewery

May 3

Published in
Elemental

All Health News Is Not Equal

How to find islands of reality in a sea of misinformation

Feb 5, 2022

All Health News Is Not Equal

Feb 5, 2022

Ancient Wisdom for the Stresses of Modern Life

I put Stoicism to the test by practicing this philosophy for a whole year. Here’s what I learned.

Jan 5, 2022

Ancient Wisdom for the Stresses of Modern Life

Jan 5, 2022

Cobra Kai Rock: Six Obscure ’80s Anthems that Should Be on Johnny Lawrence’s Playlist

These overlooked rockers would punch up “Johnny’s Badass Mixtape”

Dec 14, 2021

Cobra Kai Rock: Six Obscure ’80s Anthems that Should Be on Johnny Lawrence’s Playlist

Dec 14, 2021

Published in
Elemental

Opting Out of the Covid-19 Vaccine Puts the World at Risk

Unvaccinated people are donating their body to the virus, allowing it to conduct gain-of-function experiments

Aug 2, 2021

Opting Out of the Covid-19 Vaccine Puts the World at Risk

Aug 2, 2021

Bill Sullivan Jr

Bill Sullivan Jr

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Bill Sullivan is the author of “Pleased to Meet Me: Genes, Germs, and the Curious Forces That Make Us Who We Are” (National Geographic Books).

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