DOLPHIN INVENTS CORONAVIRUS VACCINE!

Science from the Sea! For months, scientists have been scrambling to develop a vaccine for the novel coronavirus that has raged across the country and the planet. “We’ve been scrambling to develop a vaccine for the novel coronavirus,” said Dr. Joy Martin, a senior fellow at the National Institute for Virological Research, “that has raged … READ MORE

SAL DONATO’S PSA!

Sal Donato has been singing the news for more than a half-century years now. What does that mean? It means that everywhere he has lived—Western Pennsylvania, upstate New York, suburban New Jersey, and a brief stint in the Maze District in Canyonlands National Park—he has spent his Friday nights digesting the events of the week … READ MORE

THE ZEEBANS ARE COMING!

AND THEY HAVE CORONAVIRUS ADVICE The world is in the grips of coronavirus fever. Every day brings updated numbers of those infected and breathless stories about clusters where the virus seems to be spreading. It’s affecting schools, malls, even markets. The result is a global citizenry that doesn’t know where to turn, or how to … READ MORE

GETTING A GRIP ON OUR FEARS!

SILVER LINING FOR HARD-LUCK INVENTOR OF EXTEND-A-HAND Up until this year, Martin Mopton was, by his own admission, “the world’s worst inventor.” His (insert sarcasm here) brilliant ideas included a talking toilet, sunglasses with mirrors on the insides of the lenses, broccoli-flavored cauliflower, and something called “Scented Window.” Over the years, Mopton estimates that he … READ MORE