by Morning Reflections | Nov 23, 2022 | Uncategorized
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. We seem to be in the middle of a plague of plagiarism. And it’s far more pervasive than a few high school students copying articles out of Wikipedia and submitting them as original term papers. Several works of...
by Morning Reflections | Nov 22, 2022 | Uncategorized
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. What’s the most dangerous place in your house? That’s easy: It’s the stairs. The number one cause of accidental death in the United States is driving mishaps. Falling down the...
by Morning Reflections | Nov 21, 2022 | Uncategorized
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. Economists Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner – famous for their Freakonomics books – wonder if you think you can out-perform a group of British schoolchildren, ages five through nine. First,...
by Morning Reflections | Nov 18, 2022 | Uncategorized
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. How do you know what’s going on inside someone’s chest? Dr. Rene Laennec treated thousands of patients during the Napoleonic era in France, a time when medicine was just beginning to tackle that question. Some...
by Morning Reflections | Nov 17, 2022 | Uncategorized
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. What makes the world go round? Vocal artists and astronomers provide different answers. The Stylistics sang that people make the world go round. Soul crooner Deon Jackson and the rock group KISS proclaimed that...
by Morning Reflections | Nov 16, 2022 | Uncategorized
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. If your name is Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright IV, you need a good nickname. For most of his life, the tall, thin Wainwright, a career military officer, was called “Skinny.” He liked it. His...
