I fell hard down the arctic exploration rabbit hole. At first it was just the adventure stories, people surviving in insane circumstances, but then a love of the ice and the way it makes our natural world so alien, and then finally admiration of the freedom comes with the arctic regions: no one is there to tell you what to do.

i have a series-in-progress in my bio, deocculting parasitology in an entertaining manner;

everything is intricately connected; the other ones are:

More rabbit hole inspiration (always fun question!)

If you do not read this "rabbit hole" entirely, all the rest are meaningless.