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In 1980, the World Health organization declared the eradication of one of the most deadly viruses that humans have faced: smallpox.  To say that this was welcome news is an understatement as smallpox left a swathe of death and misery over many centuries throughout the entire globe. Most Americans today have only a vague notion…

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“Contrariwise”, continued Tweedledee, “if it was so, it might be; and if it were so it would be; but as it isn’t it ain’t. That’s logic”. Through the Looking Glass: and what Alice found there Lewis Carroll For quite a few years now the TV show “Mythbusters” has been trying to prove or disprove long…

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“There is no problem about changing the course of history­ the course of history does not change because it all fits together like a jigsaw [puzzle]. All the important changes have happened before the things they were supposed to change and it all sorts itself out in the end.” The Restaurant at the End of the Universe…

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