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Smallpox vs. Monkeypox

The past few months have seen an increase in the number of cases of monkeypox in humans around the world. [BTW, monkeypox is now known as Mpox because it seems to be more of a human virus rather than a monkey virus, which was what it was when it first jumped from monkeys in central…

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 my science fiction books published, and the first book, titled Explorer, should be out later in 2023 or early 2024. (See the Explorer page on…

Jonas Salk–A Book Review

I just finished reading Jonas Salk, A Life, by Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs, published in 2015 by Oxford University Press. Here’s my take on the book and the main character. Jonas Salk was born on October 28, 1914 in a tenement in East Harlem, New York. His mother was a Russian immigrant, his father a natural-born American of…