Monthly Archives: September 2012

Samuel Clemens

Posted on 18 September 2012 by dkarlton

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all … Continue reading →

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Uncle Jay comes to Denmark

Posted on 9 September 2012 by dkarlton

Stine and I opened the newspaper Friday morning, and on the front of the KULTUR section was a big article about the new trend of “fact checking” in American politics. The piece is entitled “The War on Facts”. And the … Continue reading →

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Not so junky DNA

Posted on 5 September 2012 by dkarlton

I knew it! Back in the day (early 90’s), when I was studying biology, the word on the street was that the bulk of human DNA was “junk” filler, and probably nothing more. New research shows that all those boring … Continue reading →

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