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Going Viral

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The situation with the coronavirus formerly known as Wuhan, then 2019-nCoV and now COVID19, is developing rapidly. The picture is...

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Wuhan II: We Must Act Now

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Signals are starting to emerge from the noise. According to various sources, the majority of individuals infected with 2019-nCoV are...

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It’s Five o’ Clock Somewhere

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Google has been racking up enquiries from people asking whether the new coronavirus (2019-nCoV, or Wuhan), is linked somehow to...

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Be Stiff

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Devo, the trail-blazing nerd-rock group out of Akron, released Be Stiff in 1978. I spent a wild night seeing them...

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Ghost in the Shell

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C60 (carbon-60) is generating a lot of interest in alternative medical spheres. The third form of carbon after graphite and...

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America Eats its Children

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In 1729 the great satirist Jonathan Swift published his ‘Modest Proposal’ as an attack on the British government's inability to...

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Above The Hairline

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I’m not going to start with an analysis of the symbolism of hair. People have written books about this sort...

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Lets Face the Music of Time

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In 1936 Irving Berlin composed his masterpiece ‘Let’s face the music and dance’ for the Astaire and Rogers movie ‘Follow...

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