12312020 Coronavirus Update: US vs. the World

The USNS hospital ship Comfort arrives in New York harbor in March, 2020, indicative of the out of control COVID-19 outbreak in the US that is still accelerating nation-wide as Continue Reading →
The USNS hospital ship Comfort arrives in New York harbor in March, 2020, indicative of the out of control COVID-19 outbreak in the US that is still accelerating nation-wide as Continue Reading →
So 45 ain’t 45 no more. 4 straight years of bullshit didn’t work. Fact-checking matters. Not enough people bought the con to get him re-elected. And despite getting 74 million Continue Reading →
Two US States, two Asian countries. Stupidity, religious arrogance, science denial vs. science-based public health measures. North and South Dakota vs. Thailand and Vietnam North Dakota has the dubious and Continue Reading →
New York ER doctor, Steven MacDonald, in an Oct.17th Yahoo Finance “The Ticker” interview notes a significant fact regarding the peculiar spread of the coronavirus since summer: “To the extent Continue Reading →
I first started blogging about the virus in July in The Virus and the States. Little bitty Mississippi was then just starting to bust out with its HUGE coronavirus explosion. Continue Reading →
8 classes, house projects, a bit of travel, WRITING A CHAPTER for an edited volume to be published hopefully it the next year or so, and squeezing in minimal research Continue Reading →
Lauren Sallan, PhD in Integrative Biology from University of Chicago, now working her own lab at University of Pennsylvania studying patterns of evolutionary change in the fossil record of the Continue Reading →
One is a US state: hot, dry, mostly arid: a place where many retire to escape the respiratory irritation of muggy, polluted, city air and breathe the dry, healing, desert Continue Reading →
Comet NEOWISE visible above the NW horizon of central Oregon, just passing by the Sun. Unfortunately, I didn’t get a view like that. Comet NEOWISE was just too faint where Continue Reading →
Lake Superior-no salt added, shark-free, along the North Shore NW of Duluth MN OK so I wasn’t gonna do any research on a topic, just an impromptu essay for the Continue Reading →