Category Archives: Science

An irresistible impulse

It’s one of the ways you can plead insanity. The original legal standard was that you had to be so insane as to not know the difference between right and wrong.

A 19th century hero

I love being married to a high school social studies teacher.
Have you ever heard of Dr. John Snow, the father of public health? There was a cholera outbreak in London, ca. 1850.

An author in the news

I wasn’t completely surprised to learn that Agatha Christie is the most-translated author in the world. But guess who comes in at number 2? Jules Verne.

An old literary flame

Fifty years ago this week a press conference was held announcing the discovery of the polio vaccine.

A strange thing I noticed

Out of the whole world of bloggers only ten people, including me, listed “human evolution” as one of their interests.