Happy Five Years at Chapelboro, Jeff Danner!
We are celebrating five years of Jeff Danner and Common Science at Chapelboro! For the past five...
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Common Science Fifth Anniversary Column
This week marks the fifth anniversary of Common Science® and this is my 239th column! It’s been my great pleasure to write them and I have enjoyed your comments and emails over the years. Nevertheless, I’ve decided that I need...
Read MoreA Simple Way to Help the Birds and the Bees
Sometimes the rest of my life imposes on my writing schedule. I skipped last Sunday, a rarity, and this week I am writing from the road. While I was in the car yesterday, I heard an appeal from the National Audubon Society for...
Read MoreThe Highest Volume Chemical Produced in the World is . . .
In the early 1990s when I was a graduate student in Chemical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, I taught a class called Introduction to Chemical Engineering to the freshmen. During my first lecture, I asked the...
Read MoreCats, Man’s Second Best Friend
My inspirations for topics come from many sources: news articles, conversations, questions from readers, long-held passions, and occasionally random thoughts. This is a random thought week. For some reason, it occurred to me...
Read MoreIn Which My Chickens Save My Life
I raise chickens at my small farm west of Carrboro, NC. At the moment, there are six members of my all-female flock. In addition to their coop, they have 24/7 access to a 2,500 square foot chicken run. Because I allocate over...
Read MoreU.S. Birth Practices 1940 to 2040: Part II
Last week in Part I, I reviewed the history of birth practices in the United State from 1940 to 2016. This week, let’s project forward to 2040. Currently 99% of all births in the U.S. occur in hospitals, one third of them by...
Read MoreU.S. Birth Practices 1940 to 2040: Part I
As I am approaching my fifth anniversary of publishing Common Science®, I hope that it is apparent how much I enjoy writing these columns, particularly when the topic brings in threads of history, politics, economics, and...
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