Category: Misc.
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On Campus
Seventeen thousand students returned to campus this week–so no more mindlessly riding my bike around campus–and the Bay Campus held their annual Science Saturday today.
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A Caravel
Excited to see the Nao Trinidad is returning to New Bedford. It was the flagship of Ferdinand Magellan’s 1519–22 voyage of circumnavigation. Hope to be onboard again in a week or two. Here’s a link to some photos from the 2023 visit to New Bedford’s Pope Island Marina.
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I Spy…a Billing Problem
Currently, I’m writing something about the use of online databases to search for people. There seem to be quite a few of these services—Truthfinder, Spokeo, Beenverified , and Peoplefinders, for example—vacuuming up the digital noise of the Internet, bundling it, and then selling it as packages of factual, current data about a given person. Currently,…
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To the Editor, II
Another letter in the digital pages of the Connecticut Examiner: “Small Histories and Small Towns.”
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The Path of Totality
The eclipse came and went last week. I drove north, to Vermont, to be in the path of totality—a technical phrase (and location) that quickly caught on with the public and the press. It was the original title of my debut novel about the 1878 total solar eclipse. But my editor thought it was too…
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TB or not TB
Tuberculosis (TB) is generally curable. “And it’s the world’s deadliest infectious disease. In 2022, TB killed 1.3 million people, according to the World Health Organization — more than covid-19 or malaria or HIV. Each week, 25,000 people die of TB, a bacterial infection that primarily attacks the lungs. Of the 10 million people who will…