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For those of us who love vintage television shows, New Year’s means The Twilight Zone Marathon, a tradition of over 30 years’ standing which airs on the cable Syfy Channel. A classic fantasy/science fiction TV series created by Rod Serling (who also authored many of the scripts), The Twilight Zone is an enduring piece of
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If you know anything about the colonization of Africa in the 1800s, you might be wondering about where “Cecil the Lion” got his name. You see, there was an Englishman named Cecil Rhodes (1853-1902) who left quite the mark on the African continent. You might know his name because of the foundation he left which
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When schools reopen in the U.S. amidst the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, they will be even more restrictive than they already were. Schools have long controlled students’ movements and imposed constraints on where they can go, when, and with whom. With virus concerns, those controls will increase in quantity and intensity. NPR recently proclaimed that “disruption
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In economics, we talk a lot about unintended consequences. It’s easy to forget that societies are complex ecosystems. Legislators often pass sweeping changes hoping to achieve one result, not realizing it will create countless other consequences not intended. Some of the unintended consequences will be positive, but many of them will not be. A case
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There is no remorse at the CDC. Far from it. The model of virus control deployed over the last 27 months is now part of normal operations. It wants it institutionalized. The bureaucracy has now codified this into a new online tool that instructs cities and states precisely of what they are supposed to do given a
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On Wednesday, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) provided new research showing that, during the recent Delta wave, individuals who had previously contracted COVID-19 had more protection against the virus than those who had been vaccinated. “Before the Delta variant, Covid-19 vaccination resulted in better protection against a subsequent infection than surviving
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