Sports fans are in the midst of March Madness, the time of year of the exciting college basketball playoffs. So many games it is a mad time. Please excuse me while I discuss another particularly mad aspect of March Madness. March Madness is big business and everybody gets paid but the stars–the players, an economic … [Read more…]
One of the few Miss Americas that I paid attention to died last month at 87 years of age. She was Yolande Betbeze, who won the crown in 1950 and immediately stepped out of the box. She shocked the Miss America organizers when she refused to appear in a bathing suit for cheesecake photos, she … [Read more…]
Lead does serious harm to the neurological system of developing children. This harm continues for the rest of their lives as there is no cure for lead poisoning. There is only remediation, as happens in classrooms for children with learning and behavioral problems. Consequently, much more attention needs to be paid to the primary prevention … [Read more…]
Five weeks ago I attended an overflow event at Virginia Tech that featured professor of environmental engineering, Marc Edwards, and his students–the Flint Water Study Research Team, and also LeeAnne Walters, the Flint mother who asked professor Edwards to come test the Flint River water. The event was full of emotion, especially for an engineering … [Read more…]