Sunday, October 19, 2008
A Diabetes History
I've been contributing to Diabetes Forecast, the American Diabetes Association's monthly magazine, pretty regularly this year. The magazine had its 60th anniversary this month, and asked me to write a story looking back at the history of the disease and how the experience of living with diabetes has changed in the last century. In the course of reporting, I managed to get in touch with a man named William Rounds, who was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in April 1923 -- just months after insulin was invented. There's no way to say for sure, but I think it's entirely possible he's lived with diabetes longer than anyone on Earth. (He's hard of hearing and lives in Texas, so I actually spoke with his wife.)
Labels: ADA, diabetes, forecast, history, rounds, william
Friday, October 17, 2008
Catching up with Bison
After a great trip to Peru and the US, I'm back in Berlin and catching up on lots of stuff -- like this blog. While I was in Peru, my piece on a re-wilding project involving endangered European bison came out in Wired's October issue. The story follows conservationist Joep van de Vlasakker across most of Europe -- from a wildlife park in Belgium all the way to the Latvian coast -- and talks about what re-wilding could mean for the environment. Several photos of mine, including the one above, made it into a great photo gallery showing what a dramatic undertaking the project was.
Labels: belgium, bison, donlan, latvia, rewilding, wired, zimov
