My grandfather, Reuben Berman, died in 2004 at the age of 96. He left behind six children, eleven grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren, with more descendants to arrive over the years. Reuben wrote extensively about all sorts of topics, including his career as a physician, his love affair with the clarinet and bassoon, his exploits in Europe during World War II, and life with Isabel and family. He helped found
About 100 years ago, the Old-guard Geologists were confronted with an uncomfortable question: How could horses have crossed the Atlantic Ocean? Turns out some fossil-diggers had discovered matching fossils of a horse species on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. Similar matching fossils were found across the Atlantic and other oceans, too. I imagine the O-gGs shuffling nervously and scratching their heads until they c