essays on science for the common good
My absence from writing the past few months is only partly explained by the fact that spring, summer, and fall bring about extraordinary responsibilities and time demands, demands which, I’m sure, everyone reading this can relate to. It’s not for a lack of available material on global warming. On the contrary, part of the problem-is …
Continue reading “Part XLIV: The importance of Teaching About Climate Change”
Looking back on the past 14- 15 months, we have learned quite a bit about coronavirus and ourselves. We have learned that a tiny particle that exhibits characteristics of life and non-life can bring us to our knees. We now know that we as an inhabited world was not prepared for such an onslaught and …
The first part of the following essay was adapted from an article by Jonathan Corum and Carl Zimmer that appeared in The New York Times on February 24, 2021. All diagrams as well as the text were modified for the purpose of this essay. Johnson & Johnson is testing a COVID-19 vaccine known as JNJ-78436735 …
Continue reading “Part XLII: Johnson & Johnson Vaccine and More”