Keeping spirits high in gravest of times

By Ian Warden
Updated July 2 2021 - 4:02am, first published August 8 2020 - 12:00am
In these isolated times my mind's eye is often at some cemeteries 19,000 kilometres away. Picture: Shutterstock
In these isolated times my mind's eye is often at some cemeteries 19,000 kilometres away. Picture: Shutterstock

Epidemics have a way of making one wonder about death," biologist Aaron Hirsch notes, opening his timely new piece in the science magazine Nautilus with that galumphing truism.

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