Who can forget January 1st, 2021 when the entire world exclaimed in one unified voice, “Hallelujah! 2020 is over!” OK, maybe not, but most of us were thinking it. Agreeably 2020 was pretty awful, with the COVID pandemic, social unrest, and economic worries making all the headlines. And while it’s good to have 2020 in […]
A noted medical researcher was recently asked what we will likely see first: a cure for cancer or a cure for bacterial infections. While confident that cancer will eventually be defeated, he believed the battle against bacteria may never be won. He explained that cancer cells begin when healthy cells mutate, and may even evolve […]
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 1896-1940. The Great Gatsby. New York :C. Scribner’s sons, 1925. Our need for escape has been around ever since our ancestors first scrawled images on a cave wall to depict a recent hunt. Primitive as they were, […]