Category: Postcards from Reality
Feeling Grateful for Science
March 26, 2022, was the first National Science Appreciation Day. It was on this day in 1953 that Jonas Salk announced the first successful trials of his polio vaccine. Thirteen states (both red and blue states, I’m gratified to report) plus the District of Columbia issued declarations proclaiming March 26 National Science Appreciation Day, a …
This article is available for free to all.Remembering Carl Sagan
The title of this piece suggests I might have known Carl Sagan. Sadly, I did not have that honor. That’s not to say I didn’t have the opportunity to get to know him. I was an undergraduate student at Cornell University in the early 1980s when Sagan was a professor of astronomy there. But I …
This article is available for free to all.Why Full of Bull? Here’s Why.
This is the first of a new regular column.—Eds. Rudy Giuliani is full of bull. Whether he is promoting bogus cures for COVID-19 or spreading the Big Lie about election fraud, the disgraced former mayor seems to delight in “throwing a fake”—his preferred phrase for dishonesty in the political arena. Giuliani seems to think that …
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