COVID-19 Vaccine – Not If, But When
A pharmacist takes a look at some of the common questions and ins and outs about the COVID-19 vaccine
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Keeping Your Humour … While Those About You are Losing Theirs
Doug Skeggs Hope for the best, survive the worst, find humor wherever you can. — Claire Scovell LaZebnik A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing. — Laura Ingalls Wilder What a year this has been. We’ve seen a global pandemic and political insanity that can only…
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#WhiteWednesday: We’ve Power by Weave, Linen, and Women
Scott Douglas Jacobsen Women around the world have been increasingly vocal, alongside many men, and rightfully so, about the injustices they face. Often, it comes tied to some theocratic leader or political ideology bent on suppression of equal rights for women. All the while giving airy, arid, and empty statements about the equality of women,…
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2020: A Year That Will Change the World
Sandra Dunham Memes abound about our race to kick 2020 to the curb. What a year it was! Nothing filled our minds more than the pandemic. But was it really that bad? According to National Geographic, we have a tendency to view every year as worse than the last. While there is no doubt it…
In Memoriam: Judith Jarvis Thompson
Mark Maharaj The philosopher Judith Jarvis Thompson died on November 20, 2020. She was 91. Known for her work on a variety of issues in normative ethics, applied ethics, meta-ethics, and metaphysics, Thompson was professor emerita at MIT. She was the originator of the “Violinist” thought experiment used to demonstrate the concept of bodily autonomy…