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The Dangers of Cyber Threats

The Dangers of Cyber Threats

For good or ill, cyberspace has evolved into a prime medium for activity and interaction. Shopping, socializing, work, recreation--so many actions that once required physical travel can now be done with the touch on a keyboard or the swipe of a finger. But like any...

Walls and Fences

Walls and Fences

“Something there is that doesn’t love a wall” The ongoing political debate of the two or so years since the most recent presidential election campaign began regularly brings to mind one of the first poems I remember learning as a child: Robert Frost’s Mending Wall. As...

How Accurate are Disaster Movies?

How Accurate are Disaster Movies?

Some disaster movies, though fun to watch, are grossly hyperbolized. You know the type: massive tsunamis that swallow cities whole, supersized tornadoes, pandemics that sweep the globe and render humans into flesh-eating zombies. As hyped up as some of these films may...

Biological Weapons and the Threat of a Global Pandemic

Biological Weapons and the Threat of a Global Pandemic

Science has progressed at an incredible rate over the last several hundred years, and the practice of medicine moved into the modern age as the 20th century progressed. Many infectious diseases that would have almost certainly killed us less than a hundred years ago...