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Tuesday, August 27, 2013

The irony of 1945's twin triumphs ...

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1945 was , on any account, an extraordinary year, not the least for its twin scientific triumphs. At the time, it was almost universally h...

Social Darwinism turns Peace into Undeclared War...

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The attributes of the Age of the Big ( Social Darwinism Mk I) makes the idea of contrasting it with the concept of the War of the Big (Soci...
Sunday, August 25, 2013

Wartime Manhattan's Projects : big Little Boy versus the tiny ampoule that saved little Patty Malone

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The Little Boy atomic bomb that dropped on Hiroshima was a very Big Bomb indeed : 5000 kilograms , 300 cm long, by 70 cm wide and 70 cm deep...

Dawson's penicillin 1940-1945 : made in the Public Domain , FOR the Public Domain

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Howard Florey's penicillin 1940-1945, by way of pointed contrast, was Pure penicillin for Purely military use only. He believed that p...

Crude Penicillin and Bacterial Transformation : two neologisms of Henry Dawson

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Henry Dawson was far from a wordsmith but he did coin two neologisms that have survived in today's scientific and historical lexicon. ...

Are the small just a tiny part of the Modern past or a vital part of the Postmodern future ?

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Two hundred years from the event, historians will be telling classrooms that when it comes to exam time, they should remember that WWII boil...
Thursday, August 22, 2013

Hating the handicapped isn't a crime in the Canada of Henry Dawson's birth

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When an Ontario mom living a few doors away wrote a letter urging a couple euthanize their autistic grandchild, the general public was outra...