by sumac | Dec 21, 2020 | Institutional Apologies
Stanford Medicine (the university’s medical school and hospital) got 5,000 doses of COVID19 vaccine. Not enough for everybody – nowhere is there enough for everybody yet – but it was a great start. Stanford’s in Santa Clara County, where cases are soaring....
by sumac | Nov 23, 2020 | Institutional Apologies
SorryWatch pays close attention to words. We pursue matters like whether someone said she ‘was sorry,’ or said she ‘regrets what happened.’ What does it mean if he says he ‘takes full responsibility’ but also says he was...
by sumac | Dec 4, 2019 | Institutional Apologies
Kate Corder is an artist whose work includes themes of eco-catastrophe, ecologies, land use, and wildlife. One arts project she organized in 2016 and 2017 was the planting of 800 young tree saplings in Palmer Park in Reading, Berkshire, UK. That’s a lot of baby...
by sumac | May 2, 2019 | Academic apologies, Institutional Apologies
Kurt Eichenwald was a college freshman. Liked Swarthmore, great roommates, fun. Mostly. Some weird worrisome health things – so he asked his parents if he could get checked out when he came home for Thanksgiving. His father, a famed pediatrician, directed the...
by sumac | Dec 13, 2018 | Institutional Apologies
Gavin Clarkson and his fiancée went to get a marriage license. This was in Washington DC, where she lives. The clerk at the Courts Marriage Bureau asked for Clarkson’s ID. He gave her his driver’s license. The clerk rejected it because it was from New...
by sumac | Mar 10, 2018 | Institutional Apologies
Maybe you thought you’d escape political and social issues by turning to the latest issue of Bovine Medicine. Practical, science-based information about medical aspects of cow-calf operations, mastitis, job opportunities for bovine veterinarians – useful and...
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