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From a Rosalind Franklin bio at the San Diego Supercomputer Center website : "Wilkins was away at the time, and when he returned he m...

[fiction] Laney never tried in school and dropped out before the eleventh grade.  She worked odd jobs now and then, but mostly loafed arou...

During a relapse of my recurring MOOC-aholism, I indulged in a Harvard MOOC offered on edX called " Science and Cooking: From Haute Cui...

Senator John McCain wrote an  obituary  for Vo Nguyen Giap (Wall Street Journal, October 6, 2013).  The sub-header (unclear if written by Mc...

Last week, out of nowhere, I suddenly remembered a comment my parents made to me after they made a trip to Vietnam.  They'd met a lot of...

I am taking a classical mechanics course through MIT’s online educational platform, edX .  This class brings up memories of my undergradua...

One of the strangest facets of living in Sweden is the concept of "Jantelagen." Let me explain this Jantelagen thing to you as b...