Markie Miller
Cedars of Lebanon
Here’s hoping things improve for them and for Lebanon, one of the most beautiful countries in the world, a land with a tragic but inspiring
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Markie Miller
May 4, 20224 min
Higher Education Emerging
It’s hardly a secret that educators at all levels have faced challenges because of pandemic-related closures and lockdowns.
Markie Miller
Mar 9, 20223 min
Green Bay
So why is it that sports can get the competition for positions right, but the US government cannot? For that matter doesn’t the same apply t
Markie Miller
Feb 22, 20224 min
The Research Challenge
Let’s break our economic decline and end the long winter of mediocrity. We know we can do better.
Markie Miller
Feb 17, 20224 min
Football
Can you imagine what they might have to pay these guys if they ever went undefeated? If you think I’m being sarcastic, you are right.
Markie Miller
Jan 7, 20224 min
Mortality
Bob Grubbs, a Nobel Prize-winning chemist who once taught at Michigan State, died last month (Dec 19) in Pasadena, CA. He has a fairly long,
Markie Miller
Dec 17, 20214 min
The Tragedy of Two Diseases Yet to be Cured
Why aren’t the funds the National Science Foundation and other government agencies being spent to understand such deadly diseases? Why aren’
Markie Miller
Nov 20, 20214 min
Priorities
I worry, because at a time when we need more money spent on science, when we need, for example, more money for research into viruses, some i
Markie Miller
Sep 9, 20214 min
Why Science Matters
I started the Center for Photochemical Sciences at Bowling Green State University in 1985. No one had heard the phrase before, for one simpl
Markie Miller
Jul 4, 20214 min
The Virus
The big question: Could the virus that causes COVID-19 have escaped from a Chinese laboratory in Wuhan?
Markie Miller
May 26, 20214 min
Patents and Vaccines
The answer to the patent question is -- yes. Vaccines are legally seen as ‘intellectual property,” creations of the mind invented by scient
Markie Miller
May 5, 20211 min
Antiviral Strategies Against Human Coronaviruses
There were several publications beginning in 2003 predicting potential issues with corona viruses after the discovery of the SARS virus. The
Markie Miller
Apr 28, 20214 min
Spain is Different! COVID-19 PANDEMIC IN SPAIN
It has been almost a year since the pandemic started. It really took everybody by surprise although there were some warning signs that were
Markie Miller
Apr 12, 20211 min
Advice from the Scientific Advisory Board of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical...
Advice from the Scientific Advisory Board of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons on isotopically labelled chemicals...
Markie Miller
Apr 9, 20214 min
Why I Write
One reason is to bring things I know about to newspaper readers. I spent my life’s work as a chemist, and there are few scientists who try
Markie Miller
Mar 14, 20214 min
History vs. Science
I spent my career largely as an organic chemist – but I also study history simply because I want to know who those people were that...
Markie Miller
Mar 1, 20215 min
Penicillin
Penicillin was discovered by accident, or better by a prepared mind able to discern when something accidentally happened that might be usefu
Markie Miller
Feb 9, 20213 min
IF
If NVI had existed, would we now be in the second year SARS-COVID-2 of perhaps the greatest human and economic disaster since the Great Depr
Markie Miller
Nov 10, 20205 min
Changing Times
The pandemic of 2020 has been painful for the world, and in more ways than just the number of persons worldwide that have taken ill, or by t
Markie Miller
Oct 30, 20201 min
Medical Models Through Biosolar LLC.
Biosolar LLC offers printed 3d medical models for a variety of applications to be used by medical professionals. Using real CT and/or MRI da
Science in 3D
With Dr. Doug Neckers
Examining the intersections of politics, medicine, and science impacting our nation
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