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When I was growing up, the Fourth of July meant many things. There were picnics with homemade ice cream, potato salad, watermelon, and BBQ. Flags were flown on just about every front porch. Concerts with stirring patriotic music were held in the courthouse gazebo. But the most enjoyable part of the Fourth of July involved fireworks.
Synthetic biology focuses on creating technologies for designing and building biological organisms.
You might’ve heard the term “herd immunity” being used as a way to fight COVID-19. What does it really mean, and would it work?
Work, or having a job, has become the definition of who a person is–his or her “essence.” It is not so, is it? Aren’t you and I also children, parents, lovers, friends, participants or appreciators of art and music, sightseers, storytellers, and more? Essence does not include a paycheck.
Critical thinking is the ability to think clearly and rationally about what to do or what to believe.
During George Brite’s thirty-four-year tenure at SPS, many of his students went on to become accomplished and widely-acclaimed musicians, conductors, and high school band directors.
Before Reasor’s Rewards or Warehouse Market’s blue Magic Coins, there was S&H Green Stamps.
Perhaps one of the most bizarre conspiracy theories to circulate online is the theory that 5G cell towers are responsible for the current pandemic. This and other 5G conspiracy theories purposedly began January 22, when the Belgian newspaper “Het Lasstse Niews” published an interview with Kris Van Kerckhoven, a general practitioner from Putte, Belgium. Van […]
Is there still a place for April Fools’ Day, in today’s world of 24/7 satire?
Those of us who grew up in the 1950s and 1960s lived under strict rules of behavior. One of those rules was our curfew.