2015-07-19 – Yesterday was typical rainbow weather in Chicago: intermittent thundershowers. The key word here is “intermittent.” Rainbows appear when sunlight is scattered by raindrops. You need both, and that […]
2015-07-02 – Life expectancy 100 years ago in the United States was 52.5 for men and 56.8 for women. These figures were bumped up to 66.8 for men and 73.8 […]
2015-05-28 – I keep falling asleep and waking up. Yeah, I know you do that too, but I’m not talking about the normal day-night cycle. I’m talking about cycles that […]
2015-05-24 – Those who think that a god created the world for human beings have a lot of explaining to do. I’m particularly thinking of the millennia of suffering this […]
2015-05-21 – We all know about the Turing Test, don’t we? If you are not sure, let me tell you what it is. It is a test of a machine’s […]
2015-05-14 – Back in the Sixties I read a book called Black Like Me by a journalist by the name of John Howard Griffin. The book recounted the white author’s […]
2015-04-23 – I am a science enthusiast. Although my career did not go in that direction, my science education went further than most. I was a physics major through my […]
2015-04-21 – Every food that you eat has been genetically modified. When Darwin came up with his idea for natural selection, his model was artificial selection. Humans have been genetically […]
2015-02-22 – We live across the street from a lovely school and park. The school and especially the park were two of the things that attracted us to the neighborhood. […]
2015-02-03 – Oy vey and a half! Has the world come to this? Ted Cruz makes more sense on a public issue than Hillary Clinton! The issue is vaccines and […]
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