Humans have control issues. We reside in a basically chaotic universe, where shit just happens, all around us, all the time, and we have absolutely no control over it. Mother nature erupts lava into our neatly organized towns, she moves the ground under our feet and topples our carefully constructed buildings. An asteroid might come [...]

While the United States is celebrating its heroes, who are invading a foreign land and killing people, other heroes are working around the world to save people.
Dr. Carlo Urbani, an Italian doctor who spent much of his career tracking infectious diseases among children in Africa, and was among a group that won a Nobel prize [...]

Why can’t the CDC and the government do just that?
Under what study would scientists have concluded that anthrax spores would remain neatly confined inside envelopes?
What envelope have you ever known that sealed perfectly?
Were I a relative of one of the two postal workers in Washington who probably dies from anthrax, I’d be asking why the [...]