A Collection of Essays on Everything and for Everyone

Essays on topics that are on multiple subjects, from genetics to politics for everyone 18 years or older. I cover subjects from genetics to sexual misconduct, quantum physics, and training doctors. I have written these essays over two decades. You may not agree with me but you will be entertained.

Collection of Essays on Everything for Everybody Part II

This book is the second in a series of collections of essays on everything for everyone Part II. It completes what I considere my most interesting essays I have written over two decades and with part I is about sixty essays. My objective has been to pick topics of interest that may bring you fresh ideas and perhaps new knowledge you had never considered before.

SLAVA UKRAINI: GLORY TO UKRAINE

Ukraine needs to remain an independent nation. Putin is mistaken. Russia and Ukraine are not the same people, nor do they want to be. Putin’s war will start into its fourth year with a combined death toll of a million people. He has no intention to agree to a peace treaty until Ukraine is destroyed. 1,000,000,000 people have needlessly died, and Ukraine’s infrastructure has been decimated, yet Ukrainians are resisting the Russian takeover with all their might. Ukraine does not want to be part of Russia. They do not consider themselves the same people, with different historical backgrounds, different cultures, different customs, different food, different traditions, and different languages.
Ukraine is fighting for their lives, but in doing so, they are protecting Europe and us from a ruthless dictator. They are keeping Putin from attacking Europe and our 100,000 troops stationed there. It is in our national interest to help Ukraine! This is not just my opinion but the Pentagon leadership, many high ranking politicians including previous Secretaries of State, Defense, and Cabinet Officers. .This book is an effort to prove that point!

Events and Individuals who have Changed My Life

We are all products of our parents who gave us all the characteristics of our being, how tal we are our personalities, our talents and abilities, but there are many other factors: our friends, our teachers and the things that have happened to us. I am fortunate to have had great parents but I have had many other that have made me what I am. I have drawn from people that were born in the Renaissance and the Age of Enlightenment, great artists, great philosophers and scientists. These same individuals have also added to your knowledge base to make you the person you are. I hope you enjoy the book as much as I enjoyed writing it.

Sense and Sensibility of Climate: A Brief Collection of Essays on Climate

We are told that we have only a few years to correct our wicked ways of using fossil fuels before it is too late and the human race will go extinct. Some prominent scientists don’t think this is such an urgent crisis. A surprising new climate skeptic is Bill Gates. Although he thinks we need to pay attention to the warming of our planet, he does not think it is a crisis that needs urgent solutions. “There is a lot of climate exaggeration!” says Bill Gates. We need to step back and look at the evidence! The lightweights are not the ones to whom we need to listen. Many reputable climate scientists question the data and the need for urgency regarding Green House Gas management. The ICPP (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), a United Nations agency, has yet to be exactly upfront with us, feeding us one political point of view and shielding us from the opposite view by avoiding publishing one-sided data. Consensus is not science, and the science still needs to be completely settled as claimed by some.

The Truth About Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin

This Monograph is a collection of essays that delve into the life of Putin, starting with his early life, rise to power, and current preoccupation with invading Ukraine. It covers subjects like the world order, how Putin has evolved, questioning Putin’s sanity and trying to explain his thinking, making a case for supporting Ukraine, how Putin has survived, past dictators who resemble Putin, and more. My parents are Ukrainian, and that makes me one too. Support for Ukraine is helping a nation survive and assisting the rest of the world to oppose an unhinged dictator who will not stop at Ukraine’s borders. He has greater ambitions similar to other dictators of the past. It cost the world 4.1 Trillion dollars and 50,000,000 lives to contain the last dictator who marched into the neighboring country with the same intent as Putin. We have spent 115 Billion (2% of our budget) on Ukraine so far. That is 2.8% of what it cost us to contain Hitler, a bargain so far, and not a single US soldier’s life! Putin considers us and NATO the real enemy. He has already claimed that the Western ideology (we) is just like that of Hitler, In his mind, the ultimate evil. The reality is that Hitler and Putin are two peas in a pod Hitler Nazis and Putin Nazis are very much alike. Only Hitler has been dead since 1945, but Putin is not. Once he has destroyed Ukraine, the Baltic countries are next, then Romania, Moldova, Poland, and eventually us. He has practically incorporated Belarus into his plans already. His minions have expressed the ease of nuking England, France, Germany, and eventually American soil. Something that neither he nor his inner circle have kept a secret. Ukraine deserves to be left alone, and Russia deserves a leader who is not a crackpot! Being of Ukrainian descent, and having parents who had to run for their lives from former Putin like dictators, I believe that I have a unique perspective on Ukraine that I want to share with the reader.

The Chosen

Judaism, its history and people. Who is a Jew; who are the famous ones on the A-list; what are the various branches of Judaism; what is antisemitism; what are Jewish culture, music, chess, customes, and politics. How do Israelis compare to American Jews. What does Jerusalem contribute to Jewishness.

My Father’s and My Muses: The Graphic Art Forms and Creative Writing

In this book I compiled a sampling of artworks from my father’s and my artistic output. Most of the works have a descriptive narrative as well as pertinent related information such as the inspiration for the work and related scenarios that give you a flavor as to how the work came into being. It is by no means all-encompassing. The combination my father’s and my works would number into the thousands with many lost through war, multiple moves from various spots on earth, and political circumstance.

We Stand on the Shoulders of Giants: A Brief History of Surgery

The important landmarks in the evolution of the surgical art and science from the Neolithic period to the present are presented in a personal and readable style that will capture your attention, avoiding technical jargon, and can be understood by everyone. Although the book is specifically written for the young surgeon in training so that he/she will be knowledgeable about the history of their profession, and the giants on whose shoulders they stand. The author often has personal vignettes with some of the giants of surgery of his generation whom he encountered in his half century in the profession., some of which have never been revealed before. Knowing history allows us to avoid repeating some of the mistakes of the past, and conversely allows us to build on previous successes. The past can and has laid the groundwork for the future. The last chapter makes some predictions of where surgery is headed.

Tales From My Home Town

Hinterstoder is the small Alpine village in a valley surrounded by mountains from where I hail. Its remarkable features are its spectacular landscape, shaped by the collision of Africa with Europe millions of years ago. I spent my first nine years of life there. The first two were in the middle of our Second World War. My earliest recollections were the sky darkening from the Allied bombers that flew from England to their targets: Steyr where the Germans made panzers (tanks), and the larger cities including Linz and Vienna. When my mother heard the drone of hundreds of B-24’s overhead, she would scoop me up from my sandbox and take me inside the house, as if I would be safer there. Then the explosions started, which were only thirty miles away but still quite audible. At the end of the war the Americans came, luckily, we were in the American Sector and not the Russian Sector. The High Commissioner of Austria, appointed by General Eisenhower, chose Hinterstoder as his headquarters from where he ruled post war Austria from 1945 to 1947. That was also fortunate and brought with it all kinds of secondary benefits to the town including my first taste of chocolate.I photographed many of the most picturesque spots for inclusion in this book in the summer of 2017. Additionally, there are accompanying tales that have historic significance which have affected many people including my life, and are worthy of being shared with you. Finally, I believe that the town and I learned some life lessons that need to be memorialized so they will hopefully never echo from the walls of our surrounding mountains again.

What I Meant to Say

This is another in my series of What I still Want to say, What I forgot to Say, I Said What I Wanted to Say, and now What I Meant to Say. Each chapter is a self-contained topic on subjects that fascinates me and I often think are not viewed as I view them. I mean to review it, try to present it as truthfully as I can, find its pro’s and con’s, research them and try to showcase them with my bias from race to organic farming and more.

COVID-19

Comments, observations, recommendations on the most deadly pandemic since the 1918 Flu by a physician who has practiced medicine for over half a century.

Race is it Real?: a monograph on racism

I present a collection of musings regarding race. Is it really real, or is it just like a mirage that you swear is there but disappears when you get there? I include the origin of humans, discuss the genetics of race, and pose the question if Critical Race Theory does more to divide us rather than unite us. I recount personal experiences touching on race such as how one of the most racist Senators, Strom Thurmond saved my life and how I first encountered black people and dealt with my cousin’s wife who was actually the product of one of Hitler’s breeding camps to promote the “Arian Race.” This book may conflict with your cherished beliefs. I come to the conclusion that we need to remember our name and act like it, Homo sapiens, wise man!

I SAID WHAT I WANTED TO SAY

Continued collection of interesting, controversial topics on historical and philosophical topics.

WHAT I FORGOT TO SAY

This is a sequel to my book entitled What I Still Want to Say. It is also an anthology of essays, all on topics that are of historical significance or have controversial themes that will give you pause to think of what is and what could be. Chapter titles include Water, which recounts the tragic St. Francis Dam Disaster, the largest man-made disaster in the United States, Leonardo da Vinci, The Magic of German Compound Words, Alfred Nobel and how he bought himself a better legacy, The Naked Ape, a defense of Evolution, Entanglement, the curious phenomenon of information transmission across light-years, DNA and why it does not lie, A Primer on recognizing Neanderthal genes within and around us, Skiing the history if its evolution, Racism, Feminism, Trumpism, and a hundred other fascinating subjects.

WHAT I STILL WANT TO SAY

the second edition of a collection of essays with new essays added.

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