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DrPat is the blog signature used by an old coot who hoards books, dances Argentine Tango, cooks a mean venison chili, and is happy to be along for the sag while my spouse does a marathon bicycle ride. All that is in my spare time — and my work life is classified...
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Surrounded by the mephitic steam of the soaking pools, I was immersed in this tale of the discovery and use of phosphorus...
Vampire bats, massive mad-cow infections, death by inundation by mites—these are all on the menu when insects suddenly become dust...
If courts define a worker as a wholly-owned product, is slavery okay? F. Paul Wilson explores the question...
Can a good Jew be a good German a world where the Axis won WWII?
The Corps of Engineers, Clinton White House and Department of the Interior conspire to prevent pre-Columbian remains from being examined...
Edward P. Jones' Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Known World tells the story of a black man, a former slave, who is himself a slave owner.
Stephen Baxter tells of human Evolution, from our earliest mammal ancestor through present day, into a post-human future...
One of three essays in McPhee's The Control of Nature: killer debris flows every 30 to 50 years and how Los Angeles tries to control them.
If you've been to college, you've met each of the people in Barefoot Boy with Cheek. Well, perhaps not the Communist activiste...
