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Hard Science The curse attributed to the Chinese - “May you live in interesting times”- seems to be especially apt today. Whether it...

    Don’t know much biology.   Don't know much about a science book. Don't know much about the French I took. But I do know...

I have spent the last year and more fighting against Common Core, the new national education reform that promises to take a bad situation a...

I've been so focused on fighting the scourge of Common Core (1) that I've had little time for the many other threats to our America...

Finishing up my physics doctorate in late 1971, I was considering an offer to join the Xerox Corporate Research Labs in Rochester, NY. I ...

In my last article I briefly described the monumental economic and social problems that have been so brilliantly discussed, respectively, by...

Everyone seems to have an opinion, but one thing is agreed: America is in a bad way. The economy is in the dumper. Over 15% of the work forc...

Just who is Sandra Fluke and why does she matter? The third year law student at Georgetown, a Jesuit university, testified last week before ...

“…this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.” How very far we have come since that day long...

He walked into the room to the chorus of 300 kazoos playing “For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow.” Michael Reagan is truly loved in these parts. Th...

Imagine your teenage son and his cheerleader girlfriend hopping into his brand new jazzy sports scar for its maiden spin. OK, I know this me...

"We don't serve faster than light neutrinos in here" said the bartender. A neutrino walks into a bar. The cognoscenti were abu...