In this dry Southwestern part of the United States, there are only two seasons: fire season and rainy season. Fire season will end in another month, hopefully without further casualties or homes lost. The rainy season will start, such as it is. Here we average 9 inches of rain a year, and we are perpetually… Continue reading The Leaky Roof
The great Greek physician and teacher Hippocrates (460 BC-370 BC) described several kinds of cancer, referring to them with the Greek word "carcinos", meaning crab or crayfish. This name comes from the appearance of the cut surface of a solid malignant tumor, with the "veins stretched out on all sides as the animal the crab has its feet, whence it derives its name."