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Alan S Kolok
May 8, 20212 min read
May 8 Good Science News #15 Tuskegee
Consider the word Tuskegee. What image does the word conjure up for you? Some, particularly those that live in the south, may think of...
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Alan S Kolok
May 1, 20213 min read
May 1, 2021. Good Science News #14. Water and the political divide.
Covid 19, a lethal virus, the initiator of a world wide pandemic that has taken the lives of over 3 million people, has been politicized....
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Alan S Kolok
Apr 18, 20213 min read
April 18 Good Science News #13 Extraterrestrials.
Imagine that you are in a space craft orbiting the earth. You are cruising through space only to realize that you are not alone. There...
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Alan S Kolok
Apr 9, 20212 min read
April 9, Good Science News #12. A win for the world.
On March 24, in that date’s issue of Nature, it was first reported that there would be a temporary halt in the roll-out of the...
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Alan S Kolok
Mar 28, 20212 min read
March 27 Good Science News #11. The buzz is back!
Consider the honeybee. The honeybee's lifestyle, as we all know, has been co-opted to perform for the gustatory pleasure of humans....
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Alan S Kolok
Mar 23, 20212 min read
March 22 Good Science News #10 Sweet
March 20 was the spring equinox, the official beginning of spring. With the return of spring comes a resurgence of life, as birds that...
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Alan S Kolok
Mar 14, 20213 min read
March 13, Good Science News. #9. The Big Blue.
Two weeks ago, I read synopses of three scientific articles published in February. In last week’s edition of Good Science News, I...
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Alan S Kolok
Mar 7, 20212 min read
March 6 Good Science News #8 The Marshmallow and the Cuttlefish
In 1972, psychologist Walter Mischel conducted a test, what has become known as the Marshmallow test, on a number of children. In his...
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Alan S Kolok
Feb 27, 20212 min read
February 27 Good Science News #7. Vaccination.
In North Idaho where I live, the end of February is the very beginning of Spring. It still snows, sometimes a lot, but by 9 am, the sun...
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