Crash Course
By Keith Michael It’s the morning circling of pigeons. Millie is dilly-dallying around the corner onto West 11th Street, one reluctant corgi step at a […]
Visit the Sea at Our Door
By Cathy Drew For three decades, The River Project has operated an active marine science field station in Hudson River Park, first at Pier 26, […]
Science from Away: A Short Science Story about Viruses and Cancer
By Mark M. Green (sciencefromaway.com) Cancer patients in the 1800s were observed, too often to be chance, to be relieved of their cancerous tumors when […]
Bird’s Eye View
By Keith Michael Millie is sitting this one out (or sleeping it off—dreaming of hallways without vacuum cleaners or exterminators, streets without fluttering plastic bags, […]
Science from Away: Political Science Applied to Terrorism
By Mark M. Green (sciencefromaway.com) Does political science deserve to be called a science? When I was in high school and later in college in […]
A Flicker Flew In
By Keith Michael This morning, Millie and I are out for her appraisal-of-the-neighborhood amble around the block. In her corgi-ish way, I imagine Millie reveling […]
Epidemiology— We are the Canary
By Mark Green (sceincefromaway.com) Hoosick Falls is a lovely town in upstate New York near the Vermont border and famous as the home of a […]
Are You Mocking Me?
By Keith Michael “Are corgis naturally fat?” Millie and I squint into the late-afternoon September sun at our inquisitor—nonplussed. Well, Millie is actually sitting and […]
Defining Transgender
I’m an avid reader of WestView News. I have learned and absorbed a lot from the perspective of the contributing writers over the years. And […]
Night Shift
By Keith Michael The stratospheric twittering of Chimney Swifts scribbles through the air, several octaves above the clicks, whirrs, and drones of summer air conditioners […]
Science From Away: What are scientists doing?
By Mark M. Green (sciencefromaway.com) There are scientific journals and there are scientific journals. The latter are really only two, Science and Nature that are […]
The Physics of Everyday Things
By Trush Majmudar Physics and mathematics have been used successfully to describe the world around us. When we think of physics, we usually think either […]
Science from Away: Some Interesting Stuff
By Mark M Green (sciencefromaway.com) The Kepler Space Telescope has added a new planet with life supporting temperatures to the two thousand three hundred and […]
Performance Treadmill (Part Two)
By Christina Winholt Raccuia It takes courage to face our fears and ourselves. But you have to notice what you are telling yourself that drives […]
The Common Touch
By Keith Michael If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch… From If, Rudyard Kipling […]
Science from Away: Transgender, the Facts
By Mark M. Green (sciencefromaway.com) Very few of us are free from some degree of discomfort in the presence of those who occupy the […]
Me, Me, Me
By Keith Michael “The song is called ‘Ways and Means’ but that’s only what it’s called, you know!” “Well, what is the song, then?” said […]