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Why is Climate Change Different Now?

Sometimes the Valley’s science-deniers get to be too much for Dr. Richard Anderson, a retired Professor of Biology formerly at Modesto Junior College. With a PhD in plant cell structure and a master’s degree in in marine biology, along with decades of further study, Anderson offers clear explanations of climate change basics. Like all great […]

Of Magpies and Men—or “COVID and Corvids”

Doctor Richard Anderson is a retired Professor of Microbiology. When contemplating the effects of Covid-19, we would do well to meditate on California’s endemic Yellow-billed Magpies as a model of how nature works her relentless process of evolving life forms. About 180,000 of these beautiful birds previously mobbed various favorite sites in Modesto and throughout […]