Murder Theory (The Naturalist, #3)

by Andrew Mayne

You don’t role-play if you hate people. You play these games if you don’t know how to interact with others and are looking for a way to connect. The rules and routines of RPGs make it easy for even the most socially awkward person to spend a few hours in the company of other people without worrying about what to say.

Good science requires having your ideas challenged, and that’s often difficult for the people whose paychecks you sign.

Increasingly we’re finding that the cure to many pathogens can be found in the environment from which they emerge. Recently, a man with a life-threatening infection in his heart was cured by using a bacteriophage—a virus that infects bacteria—found within an hour’s drive of where he contracted the infection. As bacteria outpace the development of antibiotics, treatments like bacteriophages are looking increasingly like the solution.