Coronavirus Update: US vs. the World (abject failure).
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 →
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 →
Well, here’s the YouTube channel banner graphics I just received yesterday. A take-off on the Apollo 8 photo (still copyrighted, I believe), that says what I want to express at Continue Reading →
Some folks, how ’bout most folks, just don’t like the idea of materialism. “There must be something more”, many feel, and it is non-material, made of the spirit, in the Continue Reading →
The “Defenders of the New Enlightenment” (D.O.N.E.) YouTube channel of science and secular podcasts hosted by yours truly, Dr.Z, the Unbelieving Scum, is FINALLY in the works. I’m about a Continue Reading →
My new secular group, the McHenry County Freethinkers and Humanists, but 9 months old now, had a booth at the McHenry County Fair 2 weeks ago in my hometown of Continue Reading →
I coined the term “cultural inertia” some time ago to describe the phenomenon that some ideas just hang around if widely-held, if they are the majority view, and the average Continue Reading →