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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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  • COVID And The Economy

    In an earlier post on this blog site I commented on COVID and herd immunity (scroll down to see it). What would happen, I asked, if we just let the […]

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  • After The Coronavirus

    The coronavirus pandemic continues: cases are increasing faster than medical facilities can accommodate them, lines for testing are miles long, deaths are mounting, and the virus has hit almost every […]

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  • COVID And Herd Immunity

    There’s been some talk lately of saying to heck with the idea of developing a vaccine for the SARS-CoV-2 virus that is currently causing the COVID-19 pandemic in the US, […]

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  • COVID-19 In The Long Term

    Up to now, I haven’t blogged or commented on the on-going COVID-19 pandemic, largely because anything I had to say would be to simply repeat the already well-known, tried-and-true rules […]

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