In 1985, three British scientists working at the British Antarctic Survey stunned the world when they discovered that at certain times of the year
Author: Renee Shur
Renee Shur lives and works in New York’s Hudson Valley.
Conquering snow, old-style
Awakened recently at four and then six in the morning by the clanking and booming of salt trucks and snow plows lumbering outside my
Why New York City has gone Styrofoam-free
It’s official. Six years and two lawsuits after then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg first proposed a ban on plastic-foam products, New York City is now a
Justin Trudeau trumps Trump’s dumbed-down view of immigration
At a recent town hall meeting in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took a tough question about Canada’s immigration policies. Trudeau’s low-key
Defying religious misogyny, Hindu women create a human wall of inclusion
As we in the U.S. watched the federal government shut down because of one man’s fixation on a border-wall boondoggle meant to exclude desperate
Nauert: Another unqualified Trump appointee, another step backward in world affairs
Sometime in early 2019 Heather Nauert, Donald Trump’s appointee for U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, will go before the Senate for confirmation hearings.
Lima beans, the scientific method, and saving the planet
Do you remember your first brush with the scientific method? For most of us, the six steps at the core of the scientific method
Who should pay for school-security upgrades? gun manufacturers
My local school district, the Ichabod Crane Central School District in New York’s Hudson Valley, recently held a vote on a capital improvement project
Getting to know the lives of immigrants
Seven days a week, at eleven in the morning, Imad Khachan opens the door of his Greenwich Village chess shop. Chess Forum is the
Fact: American health care depends on foreign-born-and-trained professionals
The misinformation about legal immigration peddled by the Trump administration is going to get up close and personal for many of us rather quickly.