COMPLACENCY IS THE ROAD TO DICTATORSHIP
Complacency is the road to dictatorship. Dictator-in-Waiting Trump, and his think-tank loyalists, are collecting the ingredients, and refining the recipe, for an authoritarian regime, should …
LITHIUM AND SODIUM
Lithium and Sodium are closely related alkali metals in the periodic table of elements and, therefore, have similar properties and uses. One of the main …
FOREVER CHEMICALS
“Forever chemicals” are an increasing threat to the future of human life on earth. These chemicals are synthetic, manufactured, and are extremely difficult to get …
LOST LEGO
Lost Lego seems like a kid’s nightmare, or some publicist’s idea of a catchphrase. However, when five million pieces of Lego are lost it becomes …
FRANCE TAKES CHEESE SERIOUSLY
France takes cheese seriously. Ask someone like celebrated food and restaurant critic François-Régis. Mr. Gaudry defines cheese as a ritualistic passage between a meal and …
BISON
Tribes and conservation organizations in the United States have recently started bringing the bison back. And scientists studying the returns are discovering that getting the …
MI5
The head of MI5, Ken McCallum, was recently joined by the heads of the U.S., Australian, Canadian, and New Zealand, security agencies in a meeting …
WEST ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET
The West Antarctic Ice Sheet is considered highly vulnerable to rising temperatures, especially in the area around the Thwaites Glacier. The entire Antarctic ice sheet …
WHAT US SCHOOLS DO WRONG
“What US schools do wrong” is the title of an article I read this week about a simple reality of the teaching environment that could …
ROME RECYCLING ITS COINAGE
A recent article about Rome recycling its coinage brought home to me the idea that modern Western society didn’t invent re-cycling, as many of us …