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by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | September 6th, 2021
…gadfly@gmail.com In the Annual Battle of Virus and Bacteria vs. Brain, the Score Is Probably 8-3Medical researchers have just determined that the average adult human body has four pounds of bacteria clinging to the outside and invading the inside of the body. The brain in the average adult weighs in…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | August 28th, 2021
…gadfly@gmail.comShould We Care if a Woolly Mammoth Walked 43,500 Miles 17,100 Years Ago?And by the way, Kik died of starvation when he was 28 years old. This intimate knowledge of this huge, hairy beast was learned from examining his nearly six-foot tusks, that added a level of exotic and plain…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | August 21st, 2021
…gadfly@gmail.comWhy Does the Sign by the Tallahatchie Bridge Have to Be Bulletproof?I had Ben Eveslage for chemistry and physics at Little Falls High School. With his wild gray hair and on-tip-nose glasses, he looked like the mad scientist, and if you didn’t answer his questions precisely, he would give that…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | August 17th, 2021
…gadfly@gmail.com19 August 2021 Health Care Is a Right, Not a PrivilegeShubham Chandra’s father, a New York City cardiologist, died of COVID-19 in his hospital after spending seven months in one of its beds. Shubham quit his well-paying job in a media startup to manage the insurance coverage and the hundreds…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | August 8th, 2021
…gadfly@gmail.comThere’s Nothing but Trouble in the City on the PotomacWhen “The Chosen One,” Donald “Jesus” Trump, arrived at the city on the Potomac River in 2017 to swindle the “losers” for at least for four years and maybe forever, his ascent to attack and loot the treasury of the United…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | August 2nd, 2021
…gadfly@gmail.com 05 August 2021Sometimes Facts Lead to Theories. Sometimes They Lead to More Facts.On 21 May 1946, veteran Canadian physicist and chemist Louis Slotin, working in our Manhattan Project in New York, was experimenting with uranium and plutonium cores to determine their critical mass values. Pushing the cores together with…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | July 26th, 2021
…gadfly@gmail.com29 July 2021This Is About the Religious-Rich-QAnon-White Supremacist-Trumplican CultThere are hundreds of thousands of cults in countries and societies around the world that have played or are playing a role in the formation or disintegration of a group or government. Therefore, the definition of a cult has to be quite…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | July 18th, 2021
…gadfly@gmail.com22 July 2021 Bosom Buddies: Genghis and BernieIn the 13th Century Genghis Khan of Mongolia ruled the largest empire the world has ever seen: from the Pacific Ocean to the borders of Europe and from Northern Siberia to Southern Persia. His government, known as The Golden Horde, took in many…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | July 11th, 2021
…gadfly@gmail.con15 July 2021 Looking Backward: 1887 to Brave New World, 632 After Ford We currently have three billionaires spending billions to leave planet Earth. Jeff Bezos of Amazon, the richest man in the world, will soon take a ride on his Blue Origin New Shepherd rocket with a passenger who…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | July 4th, 2021
…gadfly@gmail.com08 July 2021 Miranda Was Wrong: We Are Terribly Short Of ‘Goodly Creatures’Before I attack God, Catholics, evangelical Christians, and Trumplicans, I’ve got to attack the Supreme Court. The Court voted 8-1 that a foul-mouthed bratty teenaged cheerleader, with parents who want be “friends” instead of parents, had had her…