Battlefield ER: Combat Medicine Fights To Keep More Troops Alive
When a nation sends its citizens to war, there are few things more important than providing the best treatment possible after they get injured in the line of duty. U.S. soldiers, Marines, sailors and airmen have now endured longer than a decade of conflict, which has provided the anvil to shape military surgeons’ expertise in…
Why Can People Live in Hiroshima and Nagasaki Now, But Not Chernobyl?
On August 6 and 9, 1945, U.S. airmen dropped the nuclear bombs Little Boy and Fat Man on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. On April 26, 1986, the number four reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Ukraine exploded. Today, over 1.6 million people live and seem to be thriving in…
Did an Inspirational Apple Really Fall on Newton’s Head?
In grade school you probably learned Newton’s apple story around the time you learned that George Washington chopped down a cherry tree, that people in Columbus’ time thought that the world was flat, or that the Pilgrims celebrated the first Thanksgiving in America and invited the Native Americans to join them. Since literally none of…
