Doug’s Dynamic Drivel

Occassionally in my rather peripatetic wanderings through literature I run across translations of ancient texts where the translator has translated some food item as corn. THe problem is that corn was unknown in the pre-Columbian except in the Americas. It is a native plant and was, at that time, no where else.
An example [...]

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In the past few years, a hurricane has engulfed the debate about global warming. This crucial scientific issue has become a rhetorical firestorm with science pitted against [...]