Mike Magee “What I didn’t expect was that in this country, home of ‘Truth, Justice and the American way,’ hope would be determined by politics.” Christopher Reeve, April 27, 2004. ___________________________________________________________________________ Eight months to the date before the 2024 Presidential election, Donald Trump likely tuned in on the sale of the original first copy […]
Mike Magee Last week, policy wonks from the right and the left, finally found a topic they could agree on – Kids are no longer having (as many) kids. Specifically, teen pregnancies dropped an additional 10% in the US in 2025. This is an acceleration of a trend which began two decades ago. Teen births […]
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Reflecting On The Reflecting Pool.
Jenny and Forrest (July 6, 1994) – Forrest Gump. Mike Magee The historic pool is, of course, not a swimming pool, although at 18 inches deep at the edges and 30 inches deep in the center, the National Archives does have a 1926 photo of children safely wading in it. Seven decades later, a fictional […]
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Outwitting HIV
Mike Magee In a 1996 JAMA editorial Nobel Laureate Joshua Lederberg MD wrote “Our fight with microbes is far from over …odds are tipped in their favor…they outnumber us a billion fold, and mutate a billion times more quickly…pitted against microbial genes, we humans mainly have our wits.” Now three decades later, our scientists remain in […]
Note: There was a prior outbreak of the Andes variant Hantavirus reported in the New England Journal of Medicine 6 years ago. Mike Magee In 1948, General George Marshall, reflecting on the success of the World War II vaccine program, famously stated “We now have the means to eradicate infectious disease.” A frequent but untrue […]
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 […]
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Happy Spring to All
Mike Magee As Winter gives way to Spring, I am reminded of what J. R. R. Tolkien famously wrote in a poem that appears in the first volume of The Lord of the Rings trilogy in 1954 (and Bilbo Baggins sings as part of the song “I Sit Beside the Fire and Sing” a half […]
