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In a world in which politics becomes increasingly conflictual, blame games are commonplace. They start with the (often accidental) discovery of a controversial event that shows that those in power and...
Amanda Gorman, delivering her poem at the 2021 presidential inauguration. Photo credits: Thomas Hatzenbuhler, Architect of the Capitol. Sourced from Library of Congress Blog
Few Byzantine emperors had a life as tumultuous as that of Manuel II Palaiologos (1350-1425). Living and ruling during the last decades of the Byzantine Empire, Manuel witnessed civil wars between the...
What we are seeing Too much has been written about recent politics in the United States. As a result, there are wide and often contradictory views about how we should understand what has been going...
Despite repeated warnings from public health authorities that there is no magic bullet, the COVID-19 pandemic has inspired a wide range of dubious treatments ranging from bleach and hydroxychloroquine...
I am a retired neurologist with early-stage Alzheimer’s disease. For nearly 25 years I practiced and taught general neurology. Many of my patients had dementia including Alzheimer’s disease,...
You have heard of the Seven Deadly Sins: pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, and sloth. Each is a natural human weakness that impedes happiness. In addition to these vices, however, there are deadly...
The original post can be found at www.principia.blog Everyone knows that The Principia was based on the inspiration that struck Newton when the apple struck his head, as you can...
Joe Biden has become President of the United States at a time when the country faces acute crises on many fronts. The most pressing—in both health and economic terms—is the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic,...
It sounds like an odd contradiction that anyone might enjoy melancholy: an age-old disease of body, mind, and spirit typically characterised by sadness and fear. Melancholy’s symptoms could be extreme,...
Vaccines to combat the threat of Covid-19 have been developed at an amazing speed – in under a year. The figure below, from the journal Nature, puts this spectacular success in perspective — the...
When sections of the Amazon rainforest burned in 2019, Brazilian far-right president Jair Bolsonaro blamed international NGOs. The charge, however, was a bluff to deflect criticism of his failure to protect...
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