by Dr. Jeffrey Lant Author’s program note. My mother is dead now. But I want you to know that hardly a day goes by when I don’t think of her… not in some idealized fashion either. For she was a vibrant, beautiful creature whose reality, for me, even if flawed, was more compelling than any …
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant Author’s program note. All of a sudden it is very cold. I sense there are intruders in the house, intruders running rapidly through the rooms, looking for something, for someone. I hear a piece of crockery fall to the floor and shatter. I hear a scream… it is my sister… in …
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant Author’s program note. Do you believe in fate? Do you believe that there are people on this planet we are meant to meet? That we will meet… no matter how unlikely that seems at this moment? When I contemplate the matter objectively as my training as a social scientist demands, I …
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant Author’s program note. In “Vanity Fair”, the inimitable and always intelligent classic novel written by English author William Makepeace Thackery in 1847- 1848, there is a telling vignette, one of those gems that distinguishes the master of human insight and prose from any pedestrian practitioner of the writer’s craft. This one …
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant Author’s program note. In the great classic film “Casablanca” (1942), Claude Rains plays a cynical French officer, Captain Renault, whose job, as he sees it, is to stay alive, live well and to get along, go along. Thus, he contributed one of the best lines in movie, maybe even human history …
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant Author’s program note. I have long said that people are least informed about the things closest to them. Ask any individual about the things in their very neighborhood… and they’ll say something like this, sheepish, chagrined: “Well, the truth is, I’ve never seen it. And can you believe, I pass it …
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant Author’s program note. This is a story about good science and good luck. It’s a tale that shows how one single miscalculation can produce near cataclysmic results… and why we must fund and support disinterested researchers and hark unto what they say. Mr. Kupper. Sixty years ago and more, my young …
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant Authors program note. You cannot pick up a newspaper this week, or turn on the television… or even snatch a glance at your SmartFone without seeing the single word “Titanic” for this is the centennial not merely of a ship, albeit the grandest on earth, but of an entire cottage industry …
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant Author’s program note. This article is long overdue. It will be read with avidity, total agreement, and a rain of kudos for me from anyone who writes, sings, plays, paints, acts, mimes, speaks, or does deeds of daring- do on the flying trapeze. All of us, every single one of us, …
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant Author’s program note. I had been up all night working on an article on global warming. The subject, serious, is draining, demanding, necessarily thought provoking, disturbing. As the sun began to rise, showing its intentions by the first light of a brand-new day, I wrote the last word… and went immediately …