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Are Infectious Diseases A Social Justice Issue? A History Of The World In Six Plagues Has Answers

As we approach the fifth anniversary of the COVID-19 lockdowns, there has been ample time to look at what went wrong, and perhaps how we didn't learn much from history. There are many examples and while politicians ignored it, storytellers have not. I ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 20 2025 - 7:38pm

Number Theory In The English Department

(Image by Henry Reich)        One thing, singular. Two or more things, plural. Subjects must agree with verbs in number: It is, they are. ...

Article - Fred Phillips - Mar 10 2025 - 2:23pm

'Here Is The Letter That Has Destroyed My Universe' And 4 More Astrophysics Revolutions

On this day, April 25, in 1929, the world learned how astronomer Edwin Hubble had discovered that the universe was much larger than we had believed. On this day in 2025, you can preorder a book and on the 29th learn about this and four other Astrophysics d ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 25 2025 - 4:00am

How Things Are Made

If the supply chain collapsed tomorrow, could you build a toaster?  Would you really even want to try? People make homemade jam and all-natural weedkillers that are ironically stuffed with chemicals but no one makes their own toaster. It would be among the ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 3 2025 - 8:52am

RIP Richard Garwin, 'The Only True Genius' Fermi Ever Met

Richard Garwin, who died on May 13, 2025, at the age of 97, was sometimes called “ the most influential scientist you’ve never heard of.” He got his Ph.D. in physics at 21 under Enrico Fermi – a Nobel Prize winner and friend of Einstein’s – who called Gar ...

Article - The Conversation - May 19 2025 - 4:30am

Fun With A Pun

Fun With A Pun If you love puns... Nobody was injured in an unusual dockside accident today. The grain elevators were out of service, so it was decided to unload the grain the old-fashioned way, using manual labor, cranes and canvas slings. A sling had be ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Jul 28 2025 - 4:07pm

Tangential Science: If You Think It's Tough To Get A Date Now, Wait Until Women Evolve Even More

Tangential Science: it's not necessarily science, but it's still funny. 1. In an overhyped analysis certain to make biologists want to reach for their pistols, it has been declared that women are evolving to be more beautiful: "Evolution has ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jul 29 2025 - 8:28am

Why I've been away and why I'm back.

Why I've been away and why I'm back. I'm 79yo now.  I receive a state pension which falls short by about £50 a week from what I need to keep paying bills.  I took a break from social media so I could make money from fixing stuff for neighbou ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Jul 31 2025 - 6:30pm

5 Days Of Halloween Movies: 'I Walked With A Zombie'

How do you make an A-list film with a B-movie budget?  You use clever writing, moody atmosphere and then some creative camera work. Result: a lot of fun. ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 30 2025 - 2:21pm

Charlie Kirk An American On The Level of Louis Farrakahn. Rest In Peace. He often quoted 'science' in a misleading way though.

C harlie Kirk was shot while exercising his constitutional American right to free speech.  He was shot as if his very voice box had been the target. He was also someone who regularly engaged in racist, sexist, and homophobic rhetoric under the banner of “ ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Sep 13 2025 - 10:59pm