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First, I’d like to comment that 90% of my essays this year have had nothing to do with science! They’ve all been emphatically non-science-related, and in…
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As of July 2019, there are 3 or 4 democratic candidates I’d consider voting for, but although I lean that way I am not a registered Democrat. So far, my…
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In a new war of words, we have Iran condemning fresh U.S. sanctions by using expressions like ‘mentally retarded’, and Mr. Trump threatening to…
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It’s sometimes said that the United Nations absorbs a lot of money, which it often wastes, is ineffective, and fails to prevent wars. Let’s look at…
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The ocean-going liner Lusitania was torpedoed in 1915, and it sank in 18 minutes. Just under 1,200 desperate American and European men, women and babies…
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Xenophobia – from the Greek word xenos for stranger – is the morbid dislike of foreigners, and is a very common trouble.So we have a white Australian…
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For many gardeners today a greenhouse may be made of plastic, perhaps with aluminum framing.However, in the 1830s, one builder of greenhouses was Joe…
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Serap was attractive, about 26, black haired (like most middle easterners) with neither burka nor chador; and she worked in our physics department at the…
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William Gladstone, four times Prime Minister of England during the reign of Queen Victoria, said “The U.S. Constitution is, so far as I can see, the most…
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In a time of dictators – for example right now in South America’s Venezuela – there will always (thankfully) be dissidents.In the former USSR, the…