Sholeh Patrick
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Everyday physics, and your own particle accelerator
The most high-profile physics subfield is high-energy and particle physics, where physicists try to break down a...
MLP kens her kennings
Want to learn something you didn’t know you knew?
Summer heat tips
Especially after that prolonged winter weather, the sunshine has been great.
How many lives do you have?
We don’t really have one life.
MLP had not went
Your Mrs. Language Person is something of a fuddy duddy.
Think it doesn’t matter? Chaos theory says it can
Thursday’s column explored the ancient African concept of ubuntu — the idea we are all somehow connected, so that compassion for another person is, at heart,...
'I am because you are'
That’s ubuntu: The belief that we are defined by our compassion and humanity toward others. A spirit of togetherness. Of our ability to work with one a...
Polls: Supreme Court gets mixed reviews
The close of the Supreme Court’s 2022 term this month was, as always, not without controversy.
SHOLEH: Sho’nuff y’all good
Well slap my head and call me silly: “Y’all” is, and y’all are, retaking yon claim to fame in American English.
Americans WILL road-trip in 2022
Nothing, it seems, is going to keep the average American from following through on summer road trip plans according to a slew of surveys.
SCOTUS going rogue
Something unprecedented is happening in the U.S. Supreme Court, and I don’t mean abortion.
Idaho’s support of dads gets mixed reviews
Yes, Father’s Day is over.
SHOLEH: Ten for the Fourth
Got hot dogs?
Will this drug cure cancer?
It’s early days yet, but a small clinical trial at New York’s Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center has produced shockingly hopeful results: All 18 patients...
Road tripping nets new friendship
Ever see those old movies with folks talking to strangers on a walkie talkie or CB radio — “Breaker one-niner, breaker one-niner, this is Road Hog. Over.”?