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Saturday, September 24, 2022

Ukraine is My Country--Zelenskyy Showed Me Why

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  President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the  Bad Ass Ukrainian Army  In 1787, Benjamin Franklin urged his colleagues at the Constitutional Conve...
Sunday, September 18, 2022

The Fight for Rationality in 1970s America: The American Skeptics Movement and the Problem of Counter-Culture

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  Dr.Stephen Weldon,  Professor of the History of Science, University of Oklahoma Many people who lived through the 1970s see it as a weird ...
Wednesday, September 14, 2022

How I Became a Photographer (Twice)--And Why I Don't Own a Camera

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A Crew Chief checking the tail rotor of his Blackhawk helicopter on the  air strip at  Camp Adder, Iraq, at Sunset, November 2009.  Sometime...
Monday, September 12, 2022

Psychiatry During the History of the Soviet Union: And the Person Who Chose that Topic

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Anastassiya Schacht Anastassiya Schacht and I were both walking toward the registration building at a history of science conference when we ...
Sunday, September 11, 2022

Meeting Protesters in Darmstadt and While Marking A Sad Anniversary of the City

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  Leon and Vanessa on the way to protest low wages in Darmstadt I am in Darmstadt visiting my friend Cliff. We were walking the perimeter of...
Saturday, September 10, 2022

Axl Rose T-Shirt Leads (Naturally) to a Discussion of the World War II and the Holocaust

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Three fans of Axl Rose meet at a history of science conference On the first day of a history of science conference, I met the author working...
Tuesday, September 6, 2022

Life is Crazier than Fiction! Cochrane: The Real Master and Commander by David Cordingly, Book 31 of 2022

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  Life really can be stranger than fiction.  In the case of Lord Thomas Cochrane, the actual man behind the Captain Jack Aubrey of the ...