Where did those spots come from?
LIKE many people who are now seniors, I had measles when I was a child and there was no vaccine available. It was uncomfortable,...
A cloudy future
THE UNITED States’ Environmental Protection Agency is going to eradicate its own scientific research arm, with over 1,000 scientists going from working on protecting...
Get out and let them solve it
THERE are many ways to finish a war with the best being to stop it starting, but that rarely happens despite the obvious horrible...
Like but different
WHAT are the similarities and differences between United States’ President Donald Trump and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy?
One is a bully, one is the bullied.
One...
The winner or the loser?
THE QUOTE attributed to Winston Churchill, “History is written by victors”, needs an update for the world of social media and “alternative facts”.
The most...
Is this you?
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump’s Gaza redevelopment plan involves getting all of the Palestinians to go somewhere else with Jordan and Egypt being suggested.
The only...
Too late?
IT IS pleasing to see that career choices are moving to the sciences but it’s a pity there are few qualified, experienced science teachers...
ECG or seismograph?
MOST NEWSPAPERS are showing a photo of US President Donald Trump and one of his many Executive Orders but all that is visible is...
Who will put that fire out?
MARK Zuckerberg has stopped Meta’s fact-checking program and will rely on its users to consider content.
Isn’t this similar to sacking firefighters and letting arsonists...
Greetings to all
BY DENNIS FITZGERALD
“MERRY Christmas to all”, or as I now told to say, “Happy holidays” or “Seasons greetings”.
Several well-meaning, basically sane people have told...