Most of us likely first heard the name Isaac Newton when we were in primary school. For some, it may have been in a classroom; for others it may have been while viewing a television program – most likely a cartoon. However, in most all instances, I’d be willing to wager that the name was […]
To quote Mr. Bruce Springsteen, “Born in the U.S.A / I was born in the U.S.A.” As such, and still residing there, I have too often found it too easy to become somewhat isolated from the rest of the world. As a country, the United States is both geographically large and culturally… well, loud might […]
Of all the time I misspent during my misspent youth, having now reached the age of greater wisdom (or at least grayer hair), I now count much of it wasted if it was not spent looking at gulls. Like many naturalists who include birds in their studies, I am absolutely rubbish at identifying gulls. Unlike […]
For as long as human history has been recorded, and certainly well before that as well, we’ve been afflicted by disease; some minor, some fatal, and up until relatively recently – the past few centuries, for the most part – all largely mysterious in regard to their causes. If the diseases that afflict humans are […]