Author: Mike Leonard
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The Beginning and End of the McKinney Fountain
The McKinney fountain was a monumental symphony of splashing water inside the bustling Indiana University campus By Mike Leonard A bittersweet back to school experience awaits students, faculty, staff and the public familiar with the McKinney fountain in front of the Simon Music Center on…
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We live in a Perfect World
It’s like that Talking Heads song you can’t get out of your head now that I mention it By Mike Leonard On an ordinary day in our ordinary mall I bought a pair of shoes in the ordinary way and the helpful employee took in…
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Atonement
In a chapter of a book Mark White is currently writing, he addresses his thoughts on the principles of his work in trying to shake up longstanding practices in teaching the genetic code. Atonement is an old word, but it carries a simple meaning. Itmeans…
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Is the genetic code still in IU’s DNA?
Indiana University had a hand in the discovery of the modern genetic code. More than a half-century later, IU is giving an icy response to entreaties asking questions about science moving forward and science education remaining static By Mike Leonard A story circled the globe…
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This is What a Coup Looks Like
Those Tatterdemalion Thugs By Dennis Reardon, guest columnist We have a munificently funded private Executive army invading the capitals of states that didn’t vote for Grifter-in-Chief Donald Trump. I refrain from calling ICE Trump’s Gestapo only because the Nazi Gestapo was a highly-trained and well-disciplined…
