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Wednesday, March 1, 2023

The Power of Geography by Tim Marshall

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  Earlier this year I wrote about my seven favorite books from the fifty I read last year. Tied for second place was Tim Marshall's boo...
Wednesday, February 22, 2023

Reporting from the Front Lines of the War in Ukraine: Kristaps Andrejsons

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Kristaps Andrejsons, Host and Creator of The Easter Border podcast Since 2017 I have been listening to a podcast from Latvia,  The Eastern B...

Catching Up with a Great Science Writer and Bicyclist I Haven't Seen For More Than 15 Years.

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  Katharine Sanderson and I on the  north side of the Millennium Bridge In 2004 Katharine Sanderson flew from the offices of "Chemistry...
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Philosophy Discussions on the Way to NYC Shopping

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From 2002 until the pandemic, several of my kids and I would go to New York the day after Christmas to shop along Broadway. Usually we drove...
Tuesday, February 21, 2023

Zanis Lipke Memorial, Riga, Latvia: Honoring a Man Who Hid Jews from the Nazis

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Zanis Lipke during World War II Since 2017, I have visited ten death camps and many Holocaust memorials across Europe and in Israel. Before ...
Monday, February 20, 2023

From Atlantic Magazine--The latest reporting by Anne Applebaum on Murder, Torture and Rape by Russians in Ukraine.

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‘THEY DIDN’T UNDERSTAND ANYTHING, BUT JUST SPOILED PEOPLE’S LIVES’  How Russian invaders unleashed violence on small-town residents  By Anne...
Sunday, February 19, 2023

Historic Landmark Plaque Presentation at Jungfraujoch Lab

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In a crowd of fellow science and history of science nerds, I am in the second row on the left. My trip up to Jungfraujoch was to attend a ce...