• Fun­go­ma­nia II. Singing Frogs

    by Roberto — Like many oth­ers, I am hav­ing trou­ble fo­cus­ing on work these days. I ad­mit it, I've had dif­fi­cul­ties sit­ting down to write this post; the mind keeps wan­der­ing off, imag­in­ing the likely sce­nar­ios of the com­ing months. Af­ter all, we are in the midst of the COVID-19 pan­demic. In an ef­fort to over­come my anx­i­ety, I find so­lace in think­ing that...

  • The Fun­gus That Killed Darwin's Frog

    by Gemma Reguera — In his sec­ond ex­pe­di­tion to South Amer­ica, Dar­win dis­cov­ered many new species of an­i­mals and plants. The field ob­ser­va­tions ob­tained through­out this 5‑year ex­pe­di­tion pro­vided the in­tel­lec­tual frame­work for the mat­u­ra­tion of his ideas on evo­lu­tion. It also in­tro­duced the world to...