Something in the Air
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The Climatron Chronicles
Manipulating a dial on a clock-like face that was twice the size of his head, Joseph Hollander was standing outside a vault-like door an instrument array at his fingertips. In his knee-length white coat, he could have been mistaken for a mad scientist. Hollander actually was a prominent physician, and he was orchestrating
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The Triumph of the Ragweed
In the annals of war, New York City vs. ragweed ranks among the most one-sided. Being a Philadelphian, I have to admit I would have rooted for New York in its battle with one of my least-favorite allergenic offenders, the ragweed. And I would have been profoundly disappointed. It’s hard to know what
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A Light in the Dark and “Seasonal Affective Disorder”
Norman Rosenthal felt a penetrating chill when he left work on Nov. 1, 1976. It wasn’t just the premature cold – temperatures were in the 30s — and the knifing winds on Riverside Drive in Upper Manhattan, the kind that drive the brittle leaves to skitter percussively. From his perspective, it also was
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