This is the grave of Sarah Fraser. Born in Syracuse in 1850, Sarah Loguen grew up in an abolitionist household that was middle class for a black northerner of the time. That didn't mean there was really much money, but the her father was a...
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This is the grave of Elisha Bartlett. Born in 1804 in Smithfield, Rhode Island, Bartlett was well enough to get a good education, including at New York schools. He grew.
This is the grave of Albert Sabin. Born in Białystok, Poland in 1906 (it was then part of Russia), Abram Saperstejn was among the last Jewish refugees to get out.
This is the grave of Alexander Fleming. Born in 1881 in Darvel, Ayrshire, Scotland, Fleming came from an upwardly mobile family. He barely knew his father, who was 59 when his son was born and who died in 1888. Fleming was a really smart kid,...
I'm not sure RFK Jr would approve of such things here, Woody Guthrie could have just taken the Special RFK Blend of Herbs and Unpasteurized Milk: One of the cruellest.
I have absolutely no context or knowledge about this issue, but this essay on the power of placebos was totally fascinating to me. Modern medicine is good at breaking things.
The world is burning and it is only going to get worse. Probably much of the planet will not be habitable for parts of the year by 2050. It is going to be grim. The future of most species on the planet is in doubt,...
This is the grave of Luther Terry. Born in 1911 in Red Level, Alabama, he grew up in what passed for the elite in this very small south Alabama town..
This is the grave of Alfred Hershey. Born in 1908 in Owosso, Michigan, Hershey grew up in Michigan and attended Michigan State University. He graduated from Sparty in 1930 with.
Wow, who could have guessed that chiropractors would be leading promoters of anti-vax trash? The flashy postcard, covered with images of syringes, beckoned people to attend Vax-Con ’21 to learn “the uncensored truth” about COVID-19 vaccines.Participants traveled from around the country to a Wisconsin Dells...
Unidentified subject, onlookers and Dr. Walter Edmondson taking a blood test (NARA, Atlanta, GA) In a racist society, science and technology and medicine automatically becomes racist in practice. It's not.
Molly Worthen is one of our top historians of religion and a frequent writer on the contemporary state of higher education. She has an excellent Times op-ed about how the.