By Glynn Wilson – THURMONT, Md. — Think about the picture in your head when someone mentions the word “slavery.” What comes to mind? Maybe you think of a black man or woman picking cotton in the American South, with a huge, white columned mansion in the background. That would be a “stereotype,” as Walter…
Staff Report – GREENBELT, Md. — The U.S. Postal Service issued forever Sun Science stamps this week at a special dedication ceremony at the Greenbelt Main Post Office. They are now for sale at Post Offices nationwide. The Stamps highlight stunning images of the sun that celebrate the science behind the ongoing exploration of our…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – It must have seemed like a Biblical plague of locusts in May, 1715, when the Reverend Andreas Sandel of Philadelphia’s “Gloria Dei” Swedish Lutheran Church first described the emergence of billions of brown and black cicadas with bugged-out red eyes. But in 1732, botanist John Bartram wrote a…
The vaccine rollout was meant to prioritize vulnerable communities, but four months of data shows healthier — and often wealthier — counties have been faster to vaccinate. By Ryan Gabrielson Vaccinating America As the U.S. rushes to vaccinate its population against the coronavirus, most counties with the sickest residents are lagging behind and making only…
Staff Report – It’s being billed as a “Wright Brothers” moment on another planet. A small robotic helicopter named Ingenuity made space exploration history on Monday when it lifted off the surface of Mars and hovered in the air of the red planet, the first flying machine from Earth to become airborne on another planet…
By Glynn Wilson – After a year of federal confusion over the coronavirus pandemic and 500,000 deaths in the United States in large part because of the lack of a plan by the Trump administration, it’s only taken the Biden administration a month in office to come up with a national website to help Americans…
By Glynn Wilson – A half a million dead. So far, more Americans perished from COVID-19 than on all the battlefields of World War I, World War II and the Vietnam War combined. And before it’s all over, maybe near the end of summer, the number will most likely surpass the number of dead in…
Editor’s Note: We are happy to report that the new Biden administration has begun to restore factual email announcements from federal agencies to allow news organizations to once again provide reliable information to readers. For four years under the previous administration, all the public relations functions of federal agencies had been coopted by Trump loyalists…
Scientists are reporting the hottest November on record – By Glynn Wilson – KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — It’s a bit hard to write about the latest news on global warming and climate change when your fingers are just cold enough for the arthritis itch to tingle in your knuckles, the temperature gauge outside says it’s well…
By Glynn Wilson – Beginning around the time of the first Thanksgiving harvest feast in North America in the 1620s, European settlers almost wiped out native wild turkeys on the continent by the early-20th century. Conservation efforts since the 1970s, however, have been successful, and the population has made a comeback to an estimated 7…
Staff Report The National Park Service will provide free admission to all national parks on September 26 for National Public Lands Day — one of the nation’s largest annual celebrations of the great American outdoors. Established by the National Environmental Education Foundation in 1994, National Public Lands Day encourages environmental stewardship and access to public…
Instead of Coming Together to Fight for Survival, Our Cities Are Divided and Wracked by Violence- By Glynn Wilson – One hundred thousand Americans are dead due the novel coronavirus, likely spawned in on outhouse full of human DNA and animal waste at or near a wet meat market in Wuhan, China, where animal-to-human transmission…
U.S. Senator Doug Jones, the Democrat from Birmingham, Alabama, Urges People to Be Concerned and Prepare, but Not Panic – By Glynn Wilson – PENSACOLA, Fla. — The Spring Break travel and tourism season is just now getting into full swing along the Gulf Coast, just in time for what could be the worst human…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – PENSACOLA, Fla. — The sun was shining and everyone seemed happy and full of fun on Saturday at the Palafox Market even as the first two deaths from coronavirus were reported in the Sunshine state. Talk among progressives at the Polonzo Bistro included jokes that since COVID-19…
By Glynn Wilson – There’s nothing like a global health pandemic to make people wish they had paid attention in science class, or at least voted for politicians who believed in providing health care to people. Now maybe even President Donald Trump at least privately wishes he had not been so hasty in firing and…
Part II: How Existential Anxiety Leads to Authoritarianism – Case Studies: Donald Trump and George Wallace By Glynn Wilson – Introduction Donald Trump has fired all the scientists in the White House. He’s made working conditions in the federal agencies so intolerable that many smart, educated people have simply quit. That seems to be by…
Yes, the global warming is caused by human activities – By Glynn Wilson – The science is in. Yes, planet Earth is still growing hotter, and 2019 was the second hottest year since records have been kept beginning in 1880. And yes, the global warming is caused by humans burning fossil fuels for energy. There…
Acknowledging Huntsville Alabama’s Role in Building the Saturn V Rocket – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – It’s not hard to remember exactly where I was 50 years ago when the Apollo 11 space craft launched for the moon on July 16, 1969 with Saturn V rocket motors built in Huntsville, Alabama. Or where…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Hey, I’m as big a science geek and science fiction fan as anyone else. The announcement by NASA of a plan to go back to the moon and on to Mars should be a moment for excitement and an occasion for national and human pride. So why…
If you suffer from the phobia of arachnophobia, the a fear of spiders, you might not want to see this. In a shocking bit of science that appears to be right out of a futuristic science fiction horror movie, Michigan researchers studying in the Amazon rainforest came across a large tarantula making a meal out…
