CELL PHONES KILL
Cell phones kill, if you use them when you’re driving. Separately, but related, there is a severe problem of individual freedom against community responsibility in …
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 …
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 …
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 …
THE HISTORY OF THE AR-15
The history of the AR-15, is a fascinating story of an attempt to save American lives that turned into one of the most destructive elements …
MALARIA
I reported a while ago on the development of a vaccine against malaria, and the fact that the search for such a life-saving solution to …
BEARS
The history of my interest in bears was, until recently, confined to “Rupert Bear” when I was child (a stuffed animal), and various National Geographic …
GENDER EQUALITY
How is the world doing on gender equality? According to the World Economic Forum (WEF), the picture is mixed. The needle is moving in the …
WAR OVER WATER
I have written several blogs suggesting “war over water” will be the next world war. We seem to have almost daily examples in our news …
BINDESHWAR PATHAK
The death of Bindeshwar Pathak this month has highlighted the enormous change he brought in an on-going fight to bring India’s sanitation habits into the …