Class: | Mammalia
Order: | Carnivora
Family: | Ursidae
Genus: | Ursus
Species: | arctos
Is it a brown bear or a grizzly? The answer is that all grizzlies are brown bears, but not all brown bears are grizzlies. The grizzly is a North American subspecies of brown bear with the Latin name Ursus arctos horribilis. The correct scientific name for a grizzly is “brown bear,” but only coastal bears in Alaska and Canada are generally referred to as such, while inland and Arctic bears and those found in the lower 48 States are called grizzly bears. Read More...
In my zombie apocalypse novel, cases of a mysterious new disease start showing up somewhere in China. The government responds by suppressing news of the infection, threatening several doctors who try to sound the alarm. That coverup allows the virus to spread throughout the country, and then beyond its borders to the rest of the world.
Sound familiar?
I'd chosen China as ground zero for my 2006 novel, "World War Z," Read More...
There are leaders who rise to the moment. Think Churchill and Roosevelt facing down the Nazi threat. Ronald Reagan’s famously accurate assessment of the former Soviet Union as an “evil empire.”
The moment now is also in need of leadership. Does Joe Biden have the chops to face down multiple global threats and secure our borders? And does his economic team, led by Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, understand what could be in store for the economy as yet another bank heads for failure? Read More...
