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Another toxic lab: Akito Kawahara, entomologist at U Florida and director of the Florida Museum's McGuire Center. [Update: Details of…
A leading expert in the evolution and diversity of butterflies and moths has allegedly left a trail of depressed and disillusioned young scientists. Is…
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Keep the mourning period short, please.
Once again Democrats have failed to learn the real lessons of 2016.
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A thought experiment about anti-Semitism and Israel's collective punishment of the Palestinian people (in Gaza and West Bank)
The fight against anti-Semitism is not helped if the "blood libel" is in effect true.
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Harvard settles lawsuit claiming it did not protect students from serial sexual harasser John Comaroff. Was Claudine Gay collateral damage…
Almost all of the stories about retired Harvard anthropologist and accused sexual harasser John Comaroff were broken by the Harvard Crimson, the…
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The home of the Hudson River School of art. (From The Croton Chronicle.)
My local Hudson River village newsletter sometimes goes afield, but often up or down the mighty waterway.
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Alice doesn’t live here anymore (a cat story)
Some forty years ago I had a sweet and lovely white cat. I ran off to Paris and left her with a neighbor who loved her too. I never forgot either of…
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In my Hudson Valley village, a 78-year-old Vietnam vet who has nearly spent half his life in jail goes into local drug court. It may be his…
"Words for the Wise" is back, intermittently for now. Paid subs are still turned off for now.
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Sexual assaulter Peter Rathjen, the fired former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Adelaide, is back in Australian news.
A former employee at the University of Tasmania, where Rathjen was an official before going to Adelaide, has sued him and the university.
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Stay tuned—“Words for the Wise” is coming back!
We’ve been on hiatus while launching a newsletter serving your editor’s Hudson Valley village. Now that is done, watch for occasional posts and catchups…
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Payments paused…
“Words for the Wise” hopes to relaunch soon. Until then, no money will change hands.
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Hillary Clinton is back, in force. That’s not a good thing.
We reprint a piece published the day after Trump beat Clinton. It still hits the mark.
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