Going Global: The World Wide Web and Globalization
Physicists and programmers at two high-energy physics laboratories established the World Wide Web in the early 1990s.
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Going Global 2: Impact of the World Wide Web on Globalization
Physicists and programmers who developed the World Wide Web played important roles in the current wave of globalization.
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The Fourth Wave Is Here
Based on county, state and national coronavirus data, the fourth wave of the pandemic is well under way, but it will hopefully be blunted by the wave of Covid-19 vaccinations now gaining steam.
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The Hunting of the Quark
A personal reminiscence about the landmark high-energy electron scattering experiments that half a century ago led to the discovery of quarks and to a deepened appreciation of the role of evidence in establishing what is true.
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Coronavirus and Community
The national coronavirus epidemic has been having serious adverse impacts on the Orcas Island community, despite the small number of cases experienced in the county, but the toxic individualism that has begun afflicting much of America during this outbreak has fortunately yet to show its ugly face hereabouts.
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