OMICRON variant SARS-CoV-2: The “Small O” That Saved the World 

Officially, the experts will tell you it means “small O.” Cute. Harmless. Like a Sesame Street vowel. And sure — in the Greek alphabet, that’s what it is. But that explanation is also the kind of tidy little classroom answer you give kids when you don’t want them asking follow-up questions. You know. Like the ones adults should’ve been asking in 2020.

Anus and Genital Rashes: Fox News, Big Pharma, and the Breakfast-Time

I turn on Fox News for the same reason a man checks the weather before he goes outside: I want to know what’s coming, and I’d prefer not to be blindsided by it. Is the world on fire? Are we at war? Did Congress accidentally pass something useful? Did somebody somewhere do something so insane it requires a full segment and a therapist?

From Vacuum Tubes to Pocket Radar: A Retired Geek’s Lament

I’m a retired Army math geek, and I’ll confess: I didn’t get to work on the sexy, world-changing projects my predecessors did back in the day. My career field was literally born because, in the middle of World War II, some engineers with more brain cells than social skills invented a device called the Variable Time fuze