by Ty Davison | May 18, 2020 | News & Commentary
Open, close, open, close. Rinse and repeat. Oregon has yet to fully reopen, but if the rest of the world is any guide—there’s a chance it isn’t—we’ll be closing back down before too long. In place after place, restrictions have been lifted only...
by Ty Davison | May 18, 2020 | News & Commentary
The Financial Times(!) telling it like it is. Not exactly a left-wing hippy rag. The destruction of American worldwide influence is as bad as you might imagine. We used to be heroes with our humanitarian efforts ranging from the Marshall Plan to the Peace Corp. Trump...
by Ty Davison | May 18, 2020 | News & Commentary
Most drugs don’t work, but a vaccine looks promising. With one notable exception, the war isn’t going so well on the pharmaceutical front: Although scientists and stock markets have celebrated the approval for emergency use of remdesivir to...
by Ty Davison | May 14, 2020 | Essays
Scientists need your help in fighting the virus. Time to be a hero. Proteins are long chains of amino acids that perform a vast array of functions within organisms. They differ from one another primarily in the sequence of their amino acids. These sequences typically...
by Ty Davison | May 14, 2020 | News & Commentary
County fails to meet state’s already lax criteria, gets turned down. Not a great look for the commissioners. Marion County (and Polk County, too) won’t be re-opening on Friday despite the efforts of county commissioners. Next review by the Oregon Health...
