Clifford Thies

Retailers are asking customers to use credit or debit cards, and some are refusing to make change in coins. They say it’s because of the novel coronavirus. The virus may be playing a part; but, there’s more to the coin shortage.

The original Antikythera Mechanism was discovered in a shipwreck off the Greek island of Antikythera (hence its name) in 1902; and, dates from the 2nd or 3rd Century BC.

There’s enough data in now for us to contrast the trajectory of the disease in Georgia to its trajectory elsewhere in the country. Here’s what we found.

Clinical trials do more than inform us whether a drug is effective. They inform us when a drug is effective, in what combinations, in what dosages, and what are the counter indications.

The results of the first scientific survey of serology in a well-defined population has been conducted and – guess what? – the mortality rate for Coronavirus is not much different from that of the ordinary flu.

We have yet to record meaningful samples of the general population with regard to the prevalence of coronavirus, the distribution of its outcomes, and the build-up of immunity.

Joe Biden, who is 77, has named Ezekiel Emanuel as head of his advisory panel on the coronavirus. Emanuel famously wrote an Atlantic article on how people should be dead at age 75.

The truth is, literacy is fast being eradicated in the world, with or without literacy campaigns.

Homelessness has reached crisis proportions in numerous places controlled by Democrats, while falling elsewhere in the country.

Across the pond, they’re soon to hold an election. Polls indicate that the Conservatives, under Boris Johnson, have a lead.

In a recent survey of business economists, only 4 percent said they expected a recession to begin by the end of the year.

Judging from the apoplectic reaction of the American media, U.S. President Donald Trump was spectacular at  the just-concluded G7 conference.

At the time that the Europeans arrived here, there were maybe 100 million Buffalo lumbering about.