Coronavirus can mimic heart attack
In New York City, doctors began emergency surgery on a patient who had all the signs of a heart attack. An electrocardiogram showed dangerous heart…
Category: Seasonal
Mother’s Day, May 10: Honoring mothers
The world has turned many times since 1907. That was the year Anna Jarvis asked her Philadelphia church to hold services in memory of all mothers on the…
Memorial Day: Time to remember those of valor
The tradition of honoring our country’s fallen defenders began as a springtime custom following the Civil War. Originally, called Decoration Day, it was a…
The slippery cold virus
The cold is so annoying with all that sneezing and the crud feeling, but it’s not scary. Yet, the so-called cold can be a lot of different viruses. Most…
Meet the virus: Slimy bit of glop with no love life
The world is packed with viruses. Millions upon millions of viruses and billions upon billions of virus particles. Humans have known since 1900 that…
CDC: Well-known virus kills 16,000 in U.S.
By mid-February, one category of virus had killed more than 16,000 people in the U.S., including 105 children, and infected more than 29 million…
Arbor Day: World’s loneliest tree has roots in New Zealand
The world’s loneliest tree has roots in New Zealand Although trees don’t experience emotions as humans do, it’s nevertheless difficult not to feel some…
Earth Day 2020: The tweeting tree
This is where things stand now: when someone mentions “tweet” and “tree,” they’re not necessarily referring to birds in branches. A 110-year-old Red Oak…
April Showers: Ignore the cat, but not the peacock
You can be fairly sure that April showers will bring May flowers, but is there any way to tell when the showers are going to come? Probably not but there…
Endangered Key deer face threats from humans, cars, habitat loss
In the Florida Keys, a little deer, relative of its wild whitetail cousins on the mainland, struggles to survive modern times, with mixed results. Key…