This is a poem I wrote in 2013. This month the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is 426.5 ppm. I still have not stood next to, or near, a 'famous person of eminence' so far as I am aware (not very :-). It matters not, as we continue unabated to experience rarity in a form the majority of us, especially those without eminence, will likely regret. 400 ppm   In 1958 Charles Keeling Began measuring the concentration Of carbon dioxide in the troposphere On the Hawa

There’s far more causality between paying attention to the news, or worse social media, these days and becoming deranged, than there is between using Tylenol and either 'getting autism', or if you are a pregnant woman, using Tylenol, causing your child to 'get autism'. The joint announcement by the current President and HHS Secretary RF Kennedy that Tylenol, or its primary functional ingredient, acetaminophen, causes autism is another example of the erosion of trust and perh

Recently there was some hullabaloo in the small corner of the scientific world that I inhabit with the decision by Science Magazine to retract an article published in 2010 that claimed to have discovered arsenic-based life. Or at least those were the headlines at the time, the reality was that these researchers had claimed to discover a microorganism, a bacterium named Halomonas  to be more specific, that could use arsenic in place of phosphorus as a building block of life.