RANDOM AUDIO: I Am Way More Obsessed with HPAI than you are

Influenza, in all its forms, is the master of mutation, making it irresistible to a “bug” junkie like me. So when the 2014-2015 outbreak swept across the country, mutating as it went, and in the end causing 48± million birds to be euthanized; the system unable to keep up with the wildfire outbreak despite rushing…

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MIT – Greatest Hits

Kick it up a notch? Intro to Solid State Chemistry – MIT 3.091 (When MIT makes statements like “introductory level” I don’t think they have a normal concept of the term. Nonetheless, no harm, no foul. And one of their very best courses with one of the very best professors, Prof. Grossman, is also one…

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MOOC Mania

  I have become a certified MOOC freak. There are several different platforms for MOOCS – Massive Open Online Courses – such as edX and Coursera, and happily many others are available on YouTube. (Many are available through those platforms as well as on YouTube.) I prefer the edX platform if I use one. I…

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a much needed moment of levity

  Stephen A. Crockett Jr. at theroot.com writes: “The Senate Intelligence Committee Let Jeff Sessions Off the Hook” I have to concur. “The Senate Intelligence Committee didn’t do its job. No one, not one person on the Senate Intelligence Committee, asked the question Attorney General Jeff Sessions needed to answer: How long has he been…

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BEWARE:

BEWARE:
Heed to my warning before you move out
And don’t cross your guns with her quick-trigger mouth
She’s the infamous myth of the Indian South
She’s got game-playing, slick talking, dual-barreled lips
Revolver, revolving, dual-barreled hips
She’s the 38-Special of LSD trips