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The media finally have the message: People care about the environment. It’s nearly impossible to turn on a television channel—especially    ...

The English physician Edward Jenner is famous for his 1798 discovery that smallpox could be prevented by vaccinating someone with pus taken...

Last month I had my second Moderna vaccination. How lucky I am to benefit from this potential life saver! Even though I’m over 80 years old ...

After seeing a PBS documentary recently, I went to the bookcase and took out my personal copy of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s The Long Winter, whi...

My life has changed enormously during the past year. Back in February I was leading a life of what Thoreau called quiet desperation, spend...

One morning the old guy who lives down the hall walked up and asked loudly whether I had been out drinking in the parking lot the previous n...

A beginning student of anthropology is likely to be struck by the amount of time “primitive” people must spend on finding food. They hunt or...

The past few months seem all too much like the late sixties, when after centuries of oppression and the assassination of Martin Luther King,...

Jessica Bennett wrote in a recent New York Times article that there is a silver lining to the mask problem, at least for women. Those of ...

The kind of office you have was once a status symbol. When I began working for the American Medical Association in the early sixties, I shar...