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  • After You Press “Send”

    As an author of absolutely no repute whatsoever, I have a tendency to send out stories I have written to editors, agents, even magazines in an attempt to try and […]

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  • From STEM to STEAM or Pardon Me While I Water My Garden

    In recent years, emphasis in education has been put on getting science-minded students to major in the STEM studies: Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics.  While these are vitally important to […]

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  • The Trauma Past

    In an article published in the New Yorker in 2022, Parul Sehgal talked about what he called the “trauma plot,” which uses the traumatic background of a character’s backstory as […]

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  • The New Old

    Here we are, settling now into our new reality after the COVID pandemic.  The virus is ensconced well among us, still spreading and causing illness all over the United States […]

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  • AI and Me

    I don’t know what I think about AI (“artificial intelligence” for the uninitiated).  Like any new advance in technology, especially technology of computers, it has the power to be useful […]

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  • Starting Up Again

    Well, here we are again.  I’m back to blogging, this time on my website, rather than my older blog.  I’ve been away for a couple of years trying to get […]

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  • WELCOME!

    Welcome to my new website, and thanks for stopping by.  There are a number of pages here that will give you a good idea of who I am and my […]

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  • How We Were Ready

    After almost two years of putting up with COVID-19 and all the attendant social distancing requirements and protocols, we have come to a point of almost (I repeat, almost) reducing […]

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  • After The Pandemic

    As I type this, the delta variant of the COVID-19 coronavirus is cutting its way through the population of unvaccinated people in the US like the proverbial bull in a […]

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  • Where Did SARS-CoV-2 Come From?

    In the ongoing pandemic caused by the virus SARS-CoV-2, better known as COVID-19, the one most significant question about the virus and the pandemic itself is, where did the virus […]

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  • Immunize The Teachers

    Much has been made these past few months about re-opening schools now that the coronavirus vaccines are available and the spread of the virus seems to be waning, even though […]

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  • A Few Thoughts For Late December

    I don’t usually blog about politics, but when it intersects with science and scientific matters, I may decide to make a few comments. Like today. First, a little about masks. […]

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