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The excess number of deaths that are not explicitly being attributed to SARS-CoV-2 (coronavirus) has become mainstream news recently. The N...

COVID-19 is the name given to the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus (commonly called coronavirus). SARS-CoV-2 is listed in a recent ar...

Pharmacology and SARS-CoV-2 I have taught pharmacology, the science of drugs, going on thirty years. Several matters related to pharmaco...

I have made a number of posts regarding the nature of the books and authors that have made it to the top of the New York Times Best-Sellin...

My grandfather is the subject of a piece of flash fiction that I wrote and which now appears in the October edition of Rendez-Vous Magazin...

Poirot and Hastings. I definitely need to start a finger puppet collection. The Best Miss Jane Marple. Miss Jane Marple, Dame Ag...

I enjoy curses. I don't believe in them, that is, not in the supernatural sense. But I do find it fascinating when a statistical blip...

The representation in Congress is rigged against the will of the voters. First: The United States Senate. The United States Senate is cu...

My previous posts regarding newspaper accounts of Deadwood in the 1870s are available at these links. #I   Introduction. Deadwood, the S...

Previous entries in my series regarding accounts of Deadwood in newspapers. #I   Introduction. Deadwood, the Series and Contemporary News...