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Posts published in “Day: May 4, 2021

Lessons from the Past: The 1918 Flu Pandemic (Part 2)

In Part 1, we examined one theory of how the 1918 influenza virus hopped from horses to chickens to humans and then how the dynamics of troop transport during World War I helped spread it…

Mendocino County Today: Tuesday, May 4, 2021

Spring Swings | 18 New Cases | Heron Catch | FB Cannabiz | Roadside Detritus | Fishless River | Cloverdale 1890 | Grace Tour | Missing Rod | Jet Rent | Mantelpiece | Ed Notes | Illegal Doings | Covelo Raven | Doc Countdown | Ukiah Reg | Yesterday's Catch | American Taliban | Phone Scams | Freeloaders | Workers Working | Custom Receipt | Unpacking Order | Destruction Lust | 1967 | The Many Enemies | Spookworld | 1890 Wagons

Orville Schell’s Cultural Revolution

“You say you want a revolution,” The Beatles sang in 1968, near the height of the cultural revolution in the U.S., when sex, drugs, rock ‘n’ roll and rebellion mingled and gave birth to a…

Quiz: Choose A, B, 3 Or D

There are no wrong answers but most are less correct than others. All responses evaluated by licensed officials, scores published, attitudes analyzed, consequences likely.  1) Would you rather A) Be suffering from a serious wound…

The Dream

Weinstein is having a drink, sweet strong coffee laced with vanilla and a jigger of over proof rum, with Ernest Hemingway on the hardwood veranda of Papa’s home in the green hills above Havana, Finca…

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