African tribes gave sickle disease names with repeating syllables, perhaps to signify the repeated episodes of pain most sufferers experience. In the West, Dr. James B. Herrick first described the disease. In 1910, upon microscopic examination of the blood of a West Indian patient, he noticed that the man’s red blood cells (also called erythrocytes) […]
Do We Understand Global Warming Enough to Act?
Humanity is younger than global warming and the conditions that cause and have caused global warming. As the world heats, the authorities among our relatively young species look for industries to blame and nations to blame – and we come up with formulas and needs for more formulas, all of which are based on […]
Vatican Parchment Detailing 14th Century Trial Of Templars Discredits Da Vinci Code
The Vatican’s release of a historic document revealing the 14th Century trial against the Knights Templars sheds new light on books such as the Da Vinci Code. Large parts of the Templars’ history has been unequivocally determined. In the 14th-Century document, known as the Parchment of Chinon, Pope Clement V absolves the Templars of any […]
Lighter shades of winter
It’s time to bid farewell to the lazy days of summer, but there are already hints of fall in the air and in the stores. It is time to get your cool weather wardrobe out and ready to go, but make sure that your makeup is ready to go the distance this season as well. […]
‘Christ’s star was nature’s freak’
It’s long been a puzzle for Christian astronomers, and now Grant Mathews, a professor from the University of Notre Dame thinks he has it figured out – almost, anyway. His quest: discovering just what "the star in the East" was that led wise men to travel to Bethlehem 2,000 years ago. As a theoretical astrophysicist,Mathews had […]
HIV threat reels on
World Aids Day brings with it a mixture of joy and blues. This year marked 25 years since the first case study detailing an unusual cluster of pneumonia cases among gay men alerted the world to Aids. The optimism was rare this time and the statistics were startling. ILO warned that HIV/Aids threatened to […]
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