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  • Gay and Transgender Issues: Can You Actually Change People’s Minds on Them?

    Gay and Transgender Issues: Can You Actually Change People’s Minds on Them?0

    The irony is delicious. For once, it might justify optimism rather than cynicism. Consider carefully the facts reported in this story by Katie Palmer in the April 7 online issue of Wired magazine: In December 2014, researchers Michael J. LaCour and Donald P. Green published a report of their study in Science magazine, purporting to

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  • Gay Activist: ‘We’re Sitting Ducks’ in Gun-Free Zones

    Gay Activist: ‘We’re Sitting Ducks’ in Gun-Free Zones0

    While the majority of the calls in the aftermath of the slaughter in Orlando have been for more stringent gun control laws, a few people have argued that these laws are part of the problem. Tom G. Palmer, a gay man and the successful plaintiff in Palmer vs. District of Columbia, a case that affirmed

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  • Gavin Newsom and the Limits of Science

    Gavin Newsom and the Limits of Science0

    There have been many responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in all spheres of life from businesses, educational institutions, churches, and within close intimate human relationships. Most of these responses have arisen spontaneously as people’s duties to protect themselves and others, both individuals and communities, have become plain to them. Government at all levels has also acted, imposing a series of sometimes

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  • Gas Prices Are Creeping Up Again. Why?

    Gas Prices Are Creeping Up Again. Why?0

    If you wonder why prices at the gas pump have been climbing recently and are expected to continue to climb, look no further than the sharp drop in crude oil production in Venezuela, the Saudi Arabia of the Americas. Counting its huge tar-sands deposits, Venezuela has more crude oil than any other country in the

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  • Gardening: An Overlooked Path to STEM Education?

    Gardening: An Overlooked Path to STEM Education?0

    Like most children, I began my formal schooling at age five. At the same time, I also began learning in another, less formal school: the school of nature. This less formal schooling commenced when my best friend gave me a small zucchini plant in a decorative tin mug. I planted it in a corner of

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  • Garden or Graveyard: What Will Be Our Legacy?

    Garden or Graveyard: What Will Be Our Legacy?0

    This morning I came across the following quote by Ray Bradbury while looking for his observation: “You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” Bradbury says: Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a

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