Author: Pius Kamau
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When it come to math, just do it | Pius Kamau
I recently had a fascinating discussion with an 11-year-old member of a group receiving prizes for excelling in math tests offered by state and national testing bodies. The youngest of a large number of students had done well in tests offered to eighth-graders and below. Since he loved studying math, how could other young people find it attractive? I…
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COLUMN: It’s a good time to be alive
Much of our language of complaints in the 21st century emanates from our being ill informed. Nonetheless I think there has never been a better time to be alive than today. Despite our inequities, noise and rancor, our life is still the best it’s ever been. Statistics prove it. I personally see man’s existence, history and…
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COLUMN: The science of drinking is evolving | Pius Kamau
Science, it seems, tarnishes national practices, pastimes, diets, and often seems unmindful of histories. The latest scientific target is alcohol: its ingestion causes cancer. For a large swath of humanity alcohol, or ethanol plays central roles in religious devotion and tribal ceremonial libations — parts of tradition and societal well-being. As a scientist I know where…
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COLUMN: Cycles of genocide disrupted | Pius Kamau
Genocides resemble most diseases: they have incubation periods and sometimes have what’s referred to in medicine as prodromes. Both are important periods when united nations can reverse genocidal realization and completion. I have talked a great deal about global genocide in “Never Again,” the podcast I host. I should have, but did not know of…
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Of Trump, Tylenol, and autism | Pius Kamau
Before penning my observations about the president and Tylenol, and even though I know more about Tylenol than most Americans, I reached out to a number of my local medical friends and colleagues — internists and pharmacists — to hear their opinions about the deleterious relationship between Tylenol ingestion during pregnancy and autism. Their communal…
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If TikTok is our doc, we’re in deep trouble | Pius Kamau
There’s something quite disconcerting about loud, uncivilized disagreements of grown-ups, that’s magnified manifold when they also write and pass our laws. I’m referring to the shouted exchanges between HHS secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr and several GOP and Democratic senators. And of course our own U.S. Sen. Michael Bennett whose dagger thrusts of logic time…
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A season of drought for education | Pius Kamau
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save It is a season of drought for our children’s education, from which Trump’s cleavers lop off limbs and branches. And yet, in the arid season, visible are glimmers of good news for Colorado’s elementary and…
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A season of drought for education | Pius Kamau
It is a season of drought for our children’s education, from which Trump’s cleavers lop off limbs and branches. And yet, in the arid season, visible are glimmers of good news for Colorado’s elementary and middle school students: CMAS test results show improvement to their pre-pandemic performance in mathematics and literacy. Mathematics results are a…
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COLUMN: Youth brings distinction; age brings wisdom | Pius Kamau
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save As senescence encroaches upon us, and the irrevocable beat of time marches on, many of us often look at the world we will soon depart from with trepidation. There is so much we could have…
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COLUMN: Youth brings distinction; age brings wisdom | Pius Kamau
As senescence encroaches upon us, and the irrevocable beat of time marches on, many of us often look at the world we will soon depart from with trepidation. There is so much we could have done to leave behind a better world, we think, not because we didn’t know what needed doing, but because others…