Mike Magee For the past eight Springs, my calendar in May has included a 90 minute lecture for the Presidents College at the University of Hartford. Both the commitment and the topic have been chosen 9 months earlier. The long lead time allows enough space to develop the in-depth research and slide deck to support […]
Tag: Nature
Mike Magee On March 9, 1967, the Star Trek classic episode, “The Devil in the Dark” first aired. The Enterprise had received an urgent distress call from miners on the planet Janus VI. They are literally melting after, Horta, a wounded inhabitant has targeted them with liquifying acid rays. A sympathetic Spock hears the […]
Mike Magee A study eight years ago, published in Nature, was titled “Study revives bird origin for 1918 flu pandemic.” The study, which analyzed more than 80,000 gene sequences from flu viruses from humans., birds, horses, pigs, and bats, concluded the 1918 pandemic disaster “probably sprang from North American domestic and wild birds, not from […]


