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Monday, February 17, 2025

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  Fast-spreading measles outbreak infects dozens Eduardo Cuevas and James Powel USA TODAY February 17, 2025 A fast-growing measles outbreak ...
Sunday, February 16, 2025

“Disaster” close to home

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"…the shutdown of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is a blow to the agricultural sector: USAID buys about $2 billi...

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  Why the COVID Deniers Won Lessons from the pandemic and its aftermath By  David Frum   February 12, 2025   March issue of The Atla...
Saturday, February 15, 2025

Human Genome Project

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On this date in 2001, a working draft of the human genome was published in the journal Nature. This draft covered about 83 percent of the ge...
Friday, February 14, 2025

"muzzling of the C.D.C. endangers Americans"

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Former health officials object to restrictions on the agency. To the Editor: As former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention public hea...

Mindless confirmation

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"…Of Kennedy's confirmation, Senator Jon Ossoff (D-GA) said to his colleagues: "It's truly astounding that the Senate stan...
Thursday, February 13, 2025

Movie & pizza-courtesy Middle East Center

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  Dr. Kari Neely of the World Languages and Literatures Department will give a ten-minute introduction to the film before screening the movi...
Wednesday, February 12, 2025

Our most noble attribute

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#DarwinDay salutations! Today is a fantastic day to contemplate the profound effect that Charles Darwin has had on the entire world. It'...
Tuesday, February 11, 2025

Questions FEB 13

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Happy (almost) Valentines Day (and Darwin Day, and Lincoln/Presidents Day). Bring health-impairing goodies if you wish.  A brief word on dec...
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Monday, February 10, 2025

Midterm report presentations

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Here's the sign-up sheet. We're scheduled to begin presentations on Feb. 13.  Indicate your date/topic preference(s) in the comments...
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Friday, February 7, 2025

Questions FEB 11

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   [Catch up first on 4-5] Justice (Basics 6); Premonition 6 Please request your presentation date/topic in the Midterm report presentations...
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Thursday, February 6, 2025

Coming this summer: MALA 6050-Philosophy in Recent American Fiction

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 In case any of you will be graduated by summer (but already missing the classroom experience), or know someone else who might be interested...
Wednesday, February 5, 2025

Questions FEB 6

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  Research (Basics 5); Premonition 5 Today in Bioethics (well, soon as we finish chapters 4)... we'll talk "research." Things ...
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This is not a Sputnik moment. It’s way past that.

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From The New York Times: ...Many observers have described this as a Sputnik moment. That's incorrect: America can't re-establish its...
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The war on public health

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This Isn't Reform. It's Sabotage. Musk and Trump are launching a frontal assault on the concept of democratic governance ...The war ...