Collecting My Thoughts

“Telomeres are caps of DNA on the tips of our chromosomes. Think of them like the cap on a bicycle tire or the plastic tips of shoelaces tha...

At Walkaway on Facebook, Jim wrote: “My best friend has always been a Democrat. We have enjoyed many spirited debates over coffee or beers. ...

Wolf numbers in the lower 48 states have rebounded from roughly 1,000 several decades ago to 5,000, and they may be removed from the endange...

"Omar was born in Somalia, which she fled with her family at age nine, during the country’s civil war. She spent four years in a refuge...

"A lack of self-awareness comes as a corollary to intolerance. Intolerant people, in their speech and bumperstickers, advertise their t...

We (the Bruces) lost a son, Patrick Howard, in the 1964 measles epidemic—2,100 babies died, and 20,000 were born with congenital rubella syn...

“Our family won the visa diversity lottery in 1995. We came to the USA in 1996. Some family was left over in the former Soviet Union country...

There's been an uptick in the births of North Atlantic right whale calves--7 have been born after zero. It's still not enough to sav...

Today I ordered a small bottle of propolis. . . bee glue.  On Feb. 28, which was “Rare Disease Day” I found a podcast about rare diseases wh...

Tinker writes on Facebook: “I have been a life long conservative (not to be confused as a Republican) because of how I watched the “syste...

Patrick Moore, a founder of Greenpeace, issued a spanking to do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter. [according to Dan ...

“This week, First Lady Melania Trump will be traveling the nation to speak about the opioid epidemic and share what the president’s administ...

Washington Post's walk back of its false, misleading story on the Covington Catholic kids hasn't satisfied Mike Huckabee. "Bu...

Imagine if you can. . .it may not be a bed, or a table—might be a medical waste can. The baby might be alive and struggling.  There’s never ...

Pro-Publica and Frontline reporting on moving high functioning mentally ill people out of managed homes to supportive “independent” living. ...

“As Jason Riley, who is black, tells us, “In New York City, thousands more black babies are aborted each year than born alive.” Only the lik...

The one you hear 24/7, and the one which is the U.S. government targeting a U.S. election. Tom Fitton and Rep. Nunes with Byron York moder...

   I always worry I won’t find Stupid Leftists posters, but every week, whether it’s abortion, borders, race, gender, guns, etc. they keep o...

Joan writes: https://rhombencephalosynapsis.org/condition.html https://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/diseases/6377/erythromelalgia