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August 30, 2022

Self-Portrait with Impending War

Nowhere in the poem is there a mention of a war, but the rumors of war and the disquiet of the world seem to haunt it....

August 28, 2022

A Vaccine against Fake News

Fact-checking does not fully reverse the effects of misinformation. Basically the damage is done. There is another way....

August 27, 2022

It’s Time to Get Serious About Preventing Pandemics

We are being hit by a veritable smorgasbord of zoonotic microbes ranging from SARS-CoV-2 to Monkeypox to most recently, the Langya virus that spread from shrews into Chinese farmers causing fevers and in some cases, severe liver and kidney abnormalities....

August 26, 2022

‘Truly Scary’ Climate Change Diseases Study

Climate change could open a ‘Pandora’s box’ of ancient diseases....

August 25, 2022

Ukraine celebrates Independence Day, with a new level of meaning as it fights back against Russia

I stood on Kyiv’s main boulevard, Khreshchatyk, one year ago, on Aug. 24, 2021, celebrating along with thousands of Ukrainians who were watching the Independence Day parade...

August 25, 2022

Phantom Pregnancies in Dogs

The names “false pregnancy,” “phantom pregnancy,” “pseudo-pregnancy,” and “pseudocyesis” all refer to an unspayed female dog who exhibits maternal (mothering) behavior along with the physical symptoms of pregnancy after estrus (“heat”) but who is not actually pregnant....

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