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The Colors of the Grand Olympic Parade in Rio

One of many associations that pops out as you watch Olympic athletes parade forth in Rio is the relationship between skin color and the earth’s latitude, from the ebony skins of Madagascar to the fair-skinned Danes. In complete contrast, you can’t help but note that beauty and ivory-white smiles aren’t owned by any special geography. Fabulous!

Nuclear weapons testing and Stanley Kubrick’s classic movie: Dr. Strangelove

7/22/ 16: Here’s an excerpt from today’s posting by the National Security Archive in Washington, DC, under the banner ofOperation Crossroads 70 Years Later:

“Seventy years ago this month a joint U.S Army-Navy task force staged two atomic weapons tests at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, the first atomic explosions since the bombings of Japan in August 1945. The first test, Able, took place on 1 July 1946. The second test, Baker, on 25 July 1946, was the most dangerous, contaminating near...

Tragic Deaths of Two Emory University Students in the Bangladesh Massacre

From Emory University, July 4, 2016: “Together we grieve the tragic deaths of Abinta Kabir and Faraaz Hossain at the hands of terrorists in Dhaka, Bangladesh. As an international university committed to confronting the human condition and human experience, we encounter violence in communities, locally and globally, where we are engaged. Today, we are profoundly and personally impacted by the loss of two members of our community.

On Thursday, July 7, at 1 p.m., we will gather in Cannon Chapel...

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