One possible solution to the occasional lack of access to, or shortage of, primary care doctors is what are known as retail care clinics, or convenience care clinics. The popularity of these clinics…

On April 21, 2009, CDC reported that two recent cases of febrile respiratory illness in children in southern California had been caused by infection with genetically similar swine influenza A (H1N1)…

Scientists have studied gamma oscillations, high-frequency brain waves, for over 50 years in the belief that they are crucial to understanding consciousness, attention, learning and memory. Now…

Two California children who had not had contact with pigs recently recovered from infections with "unique" swine flu/swine influenza viruses, raising concern about possible human-to-human…

c. 260ish...  Look at the history of money. What we've learned... Patterns... Rampant inflation brought a devaluation of currency and a return of bartering throughout the Roman Empire

c.280 Pappus, an Egyptian mathematician, compiled a summary of all mathematical knowledge to date (list) c.300 In Bernares, Vatsayana Mallagana publishes the Kama Sutra, a comprehensive guide to…

1609 Johann Kepler formalizes his first and second laws of planetary motion

Machines to move things and people The Industrial Revolution was made possible by machines that multiplied the force of human strength. First water power, then steam, made possible the factories that…

Here is the concluding part (for the first part see here) of a discussion of a few subtleties involved in the extraction of small new particle signals hiding within large backgrounds. This is a quite…

A Brief History of the English Language Part 3 The historical development of English is an excellent model of how a grammar naturally develops.  I am trying to capture some of that history in…