Consider these hypotheses formed from and described alongside what is my take of their supportive microbiology. Continue reading
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Encounters of the Cancer-Nature Kind
Posted in Cancer, Life science
Tagged Apoptosis, biochemistry, Biology, Biotechnology, cancer, Cell Biology, health, Immune system, Oncology, tumor
The Biochemical-Industrial Complexes
Raising the Issue
In his farewell address, President Dwight Eisenhower warned the nation that a military-industrial complex, led by interests within the government, the military and those industries supplying the military, could stray from the original intent of national defense towards private interest. Continue reading
Posted in Cancer, Chemistry, Economics, Evolution, Globe, Health, Life science
Tagged biochemistry, Biotechnology, health, Organic compound, pharmaceutical
Evolution
About fifty years ago I read what must have been a young adult’s version of The Voyage of the Beagle. Along with Charles Darwin himself, many have drawn inferences from the basic premise that in the process of life generating itself, there are variations along with a tendency for survival among those whose acquired variants are, in hindsight, referred to as best adapted to their environment.
In the now that was his time, the lad, portrayed here, was about to enrich, confuse or do worse to mankind. This, his portrait, could have, but didn’t simply disappear into some attic.
Without claims of novelty or obscurity, I now add to those conclusions my own.
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Posted in Chemistry, Evolution, Life science, Psychology, Secular vs. Nonsecular
Tagged biochemistry, Darwin, evolution, Genesis, Ignaz Semmelweis, nature, physiology, Voyage of the Beagle
In Search of Lost Memories (Chapter 1): Berlin
With the 20th anniversary celebration of the toppling of the Berlin Wall, I reminisced twenty years further back upon an earlier visit to Berlin in November of 1969, only to discover that I had misunderstood how that visit actually ended.
Freedom (I): Of Human Rights
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Here I consider human rights in general, using specific rights only as examples. Although some of the conclusions that follow are my own, the topic’s scope had to have allowed a prior airing of much. This overview helps me wade through. May it do so for you.
Middle East Revisited: Israelis-Palestinians
Ariel Sharon
Currently some Israelis are proposing the annexation of territories, captured in 1967, which lie on the Israeli side of the wall. Ariel Sharon , as Prime Minister, once assured that the barrier had been built solely to prevent military incursions. Imbued with that pledge, it has brought a pax muralis. Promoters of annexation could not put their needs more simply; they are quite clear.
Posted in Middle East
Tagged aggression, Ariel Sharon, Israel, Jerusalem, Old City, Palestine, terrorism
The Lost Sapling
Several years ago, I saw a beautiful Umbrella Magnolia tree, and purchased a two-foot sapling to plant in my yard. The spot that I chose had weed saplings all about, but I neglected to mark mine. In the spring I went looking for it and found access to the area awkward. Still I walked in and searched for some revealing leaf. It was too early.
Posted in Middle East, Scrapbook, Secular vs. Nonsecular, Uncategorized
Tagged Arabian Peninsula, Koran, Muhammad, Qur'an
The Time You Won Your Town the Race
In the Spring of 1995 with the Boston Marathon two or three days away, Wellesley College held a conference allowing the press, students and the public to meet élite, women runners who had gathered from around the world to take part. Continue reading
Posted in Scrapbook
Tagged athlete, Boston Marathon, Franziska Rochat-Moser, marathon
Freedom (III): Illuminating Ghostly Conclusions
Posted in Freedom, Obscured motives, Rights and Obligations, Sociology
In Search of Lost Memories (Chapter 4): Prague Revisited
On May 28th 1970, I flew into Vienna on what happened to be an Austrian holiday. The next day I hitched my way out to the Czechoslovak border, crossed it and caught a train for Prague. To my surprise, aboard that train were three Americans that I had met in Athens two months earlier. I often ran into people in Europe whom I had met altogether elsewhere; but the fix was in on this rarity: in Athens, I had spoken to them fondly of Prague.
