As a Marketing Associate for a brand-new start-up, I recently launched a crowd-sourced funding campaign to bring in contributions from interested funders and get the word out about our website and mission.

FORBES: Crowd-Funding Campaign Lessons Learned: What You Need to Know

Two recent books take very different approaches to the narrative of bacteria and viruses, prions and protists that humanity has known for centuries and the brand new bugs that, by opportunistic accident, hop between species and start a new evolutionary tussle.

ECONOMIST: Where and when will the next pandemic emerge?