Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Thursday, August 27, 2026

Bobby Kennedy Jr. says polio vaccine killed more people than polio itself

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Our Secretary of Health and Human Services is totally wrong National Library of Medicine on the 1955 "Cutter Incident" led to the...
Tuesday, August 25, 2026

The Ancient Mediterranean Diet Wasn’t What You Think

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It wasn't as defined as it is today By Konstantine Panegyres, University of Western Australia This terracotta depiction of a baker s...
Thursday, August 20, 2026

Trump’s slapdash Reflecting Pool renovations stand in stark contrast to years of deliberation and engineering ingenuity that went into its creation

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From the guy who bankrupted casinos Jennifer Tucker , Wesleyan University Work on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool began i...
Saturday, August 1, 2026

How vaccine skeptics use storytelling effectively to create powerful but medically inaccurate messaging

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Vaccine stupidity has a long history A drawing published by the London Society for the Abolition of Compulsory Vaccination in the late 1800s...
Monday, July 27, 2026

How we got to have clam cakes and stuffies

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Stanford Scientists Solve a 252-Million-Year-Old Mass Extinction Mystery By Stanford University Representative samples of the modern fau...
Sunday, July 12, 2026

League program on historic South County woman

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Friday, July 3, 2026

USA! USA!

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Americans are not as well off as people in peer nations Stephen Bagwell , University of Missouri-St. Louis and Susan Randolph , Univers...
Wednesday, July 1, 2026

Discarding George Washington's example for MAGA policy comes with consequences

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Flu virus doesn't care about religion or politics Katrine L. Wallace , University of Illinois Chicago Amid a worsening flu outbr...
Sunday, May 31, 2026

Judgment of history

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Saturday, May 23, 2026

Let's try having a king again

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credit: Jesse Duquette
Friday, May 22, 2026

Trump Uses America’s 250th Anniversary To Rewrite History With Corporate Sponsorships

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George Orwell warned us: "Who controls the past, controls the future"   By Gina-Marie Cheeseman Key Takeaways Freedom ...
Thursday, May 21, 2026

Scientists are reading Block Island’s past to protect its future

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Maybe it will teach us more about coastal change By Amber Neville Two new URI studies will decode over a century of coastal change on one of...
Wednesday, May 20, 2026

New hospital safety ratings show Westerly Hospital with an “A” and South County with a “C”

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South County Hospital needs help By Will Collette The latest ratings on hospital safety just came out from the Leapfrog Group , the lead...
Sunday, May 17, 2026

MAGA Supreme Court Okays G.O.P. Overthrow of American Democracy

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Disenfranchising 40% of a state’s citizens cannot be reconciled with representative democracy Mitchell Zimmerman The Supreme Court g...

Rep. Spears honors great-nephew of Ellison ‘Tarzan’ Brown for completion of Boston Marathon

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Congratulations Thawn  The House approved a resolution from Rep. Tina L. Spears honoring the great-nephew of Ellison “Tarzan” Brown for hi...
Sunday, April 26, 2026

Trump Declares Victory in Iran. Reality Disagrees.

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Killing, destruction, trashing the global economy and making life miserable for America is not "winning" By  Mitchell Zimmerman ...
Saturday, April 25, 2026

Tomaquag Museum’s New Exhibition

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"Revolution to Reclamation, Freedom through Indigenous Sovereignty" Tomaquag Museum's new exhibit, "Revolution to Recla...
Tuesday, April 14, 2026

Surprising truths about America’s tax history

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"The Price of Democracy" By Gerald Scorse The more things change, the more they stay the same. Taxes, for instance, have been ...
Thursday, March 26, 2026

Under Donald Trump, ‘Everything Is for Sale’

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Trump Exploits 250th Anniversary of US Independence for Yet Another Grift Jake Johnson for Common Dreams Allies of the  Trump administr...
Saturday, March 21, 2026

George Washington was a huge vaccine supporter and even used the smallpox vaccine to help beat the British

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Washington MANDATED that American troops be vaccinated against smallpox By  Matt Kaplan It was June of 1775 and the British army was in ...