Health Care Update: 1910
This week the news was filled with stories about the passage of the health care reform bill of 2010, and it occurred to me that it might be an opportune […]
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A Moment in Time: Education for Southern Blacks, 1940
Learning a little sometimes reveals a lot. Tuesday night I attended a screening of a recently discovered film from 1940 that was thought to have been permanently lost. After being
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DNA and Crime Detection
Today you can’t watch a crime show on television without seeing investigators request a cheek swab from suspects in order to analyze their DNA. Though the sequencing of DNA was
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Helping Gloria Steinem Celebrate her 75th Birthday
One of the pleasures of having attended Smith College was being on the mailing list for a mini-fundraiser to celebrate Gloria Steinem’s 75th birthday as well as the donation of
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First Cell Phone Call: “Can You Hear Me Now?”
The first cell phone call was made from the streets of New York City in 1973 (how appropriate). The caller was Martin Cooper of Motorola. He used his new invention
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The Politics of Mercury and Your Teeth
The recent Food and Drug Administration ruling that mercury used in dental amalgam fillings is not at a level high enough to cause harm in patients was a long-awaited next
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