The only similarity we homo sapiens have in common is that we’re all human beings – period. For me, it’s the differences among us that intrigue me. About mid-February, a TV extravaganza was announced on PBS as a two-hour wonder of the year – called “Black Broadway.” I’d seen a ...

Last week, we talked about the earliest pioneers who superintended the opening of the copper district. Before we continue, I must correct a mistake I made last week. That is, I wrote that Curtis G. Hussey owned a number of stores in Ohio. Actually, the stores he owned were in Morgan County, ...

As we have been discussing recently, two of the significant contributing factors to the failure of so many early mining ventures in the Ontonagon region were a lack of roads and the high cost of transportation. But those certainly were not the sole reasons, and the Ontonagon district was not ...

In the late 1940s, the U.S. Air Force faced a challenge. Their pilots were struggling to control the new jet technology propelling their aircraft across the skies. They decided to invest in improving cockpit designs, beginning with identifying the size of an “average” pilot. They believed ...

Editor’s note: This is the third and almost last chapter in a series about artificial intelligence and its future role in medicine. This chapter begins with a fictional story and ends with two thought-provoking questions for you to consider. At a dinner party with her friends, Judith ...

As America ages, the aches and pains of life become more frequent, a veritable chorus of complaints, sung daily in clinics across the land. Even the slightest injury, whether recent or decades old, has the potential to haunt us, making every step painful. Regardless of the body part, they are ...