Daria Vaisman

Bazaars and Byzantine Backstreets in Trabzon, Turkey

The port city of Trabzon doesn’t inspire obvious postcards. Perched on the Black Sea on Turkey’s less-developed north coast, it has long been associated with cargo ships, flashy Russian merchants and even flashier prostitutes.

Eat Me: The Soviet method for attacking infection that we can learn from

In the 1920s and '30s, with diseases like dysentery and cholera running rampant, the discovery of bacteriophages was hailed as a breakthrough. Bacteriophages are viruses found virtually everywhere—from soil to seawater to your intestines—that kill specific, infection-causing bacteria.