Aug 14, 2020
Yesterday in history, August 13, 1961, East German soldiers began building the Berlin Wall, a foreboding structure whose purpose was to divide the city and its people between Soviet-controlled East Berlin and the democratic western section. While a student...
Aug 4, 2020
My Morning Musings: Infectious DiseasesHere we are six months into life with COVID-19, and our anxiety levels are still understandably pretty high. Some of the biggest issues gripping our frontal lobe are wondering whether schools should open and in what capacity,...
Jul 14, 2020
Whenever I teach anatomy & physiology, there are two topics that garner the most interest: nutrition and reproduction. Perhaps the reason is because those topics are at the core of being human. Last week, the Supreme Court handed me another...
Jun 23, 2020
My Morning Musings: Sex and Sexual Identity This blog has been marinating for a while, because there is so much to say, yet so much underlying biology to teach in order for any of it to make sense. Today’s musing centers around sex and sexual...
Jun 2, 2020
My Morning Musings: Skin DeepI don’t know how to stop racism. Apparently, nobody does. Despite efforts to eradicate it, it still exists as an aggressive cancer without a cure. Historians, political scientists, sociologists, and others are quite adept at writing from...
May 14, 2020
My Morning Musings: To Facemask or Not to FacemaskTo facemask or not to facemask? Good golly, Miss Molly. How on earth did facemasks become such a contentious issue? I’ve been sitting on this musing for quite some time because I wanted to write when I had...
