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Let’s look at a few examples of the world’s previous plagues, some caused by bacteria, some by viruses. My background is only in physics, so anything I…
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It may seem superfluous to write about Harriet Tubman, for she has not only been played by the Caribbean-born Cicely Tyson in the 1978 TV miniseries “A…
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Politically the U.S. is now in a state of polarization, a state showing few signs of going away.As we all know, the political divisions in America were…
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Everyone has heard of a fast plane having its speed described in terms of its Mach number. Mach 2, for example, means twice the speed of sound in air,…
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“Something’s rotten in the state of Denmark” says Marcellus in Act 1 of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, and many people feel similarly about life now, here.I won’t…
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Waves were curling behind us, some higher than our little boat. Although the night was black, we could just make out the ominous white tops, as they…
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When Julius Caesar marauded his way across Europe and England, with his legions and wooden boats, shields and swords and arrows, he later wrote much of…
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In 1849 the horror writer Edgar Allan Poe wrote his prose-poem “Eureka!”, (“I have it!”) concerning the nature of the universe.Fast forward 170 years. The…
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Let’s expand our view of global warming.According to the Berkeley paleobiologist Anthony Barnosky, (the prefix ‘paleo’ simply means ‘ancient’) species…
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This essay is about two Swedish people – one who has already shown youthfully strong determination to benefit humanity; and one who first benefited…