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Editor’s note:  I recently undertook a large scale reorganization of this blog. I have been revising the format of photos and reposting hundreds of “Taking Bearings” essays along with reprints from other publications. When this task is complete, I will remove this note. If you are following a broken link to a missing entry, please contact me at  kleelerner at alumni.harvard.edu and I will repost the entry as quickly as possible.

K. Lee Lerner. “Russia: Wagner Group insurrection (updated).” Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs. 2023:(June)

K. Lee Lerner. “Russia and Ukraine edge toward a radiologic abyss.” Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs. 2023:(June)

K. Lee Lerner. “Wave Particle Duality.” Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs. 2023:(June)

K. Lee Lerner. “Layers of History.” Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs. 2023:(May)

K. Lee Lerner. “The baton is passed: The shame-stick of anti-science has changed hands.” Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs. 2023:(May)

K. Lee Lerner. “Rosalind Franklin’s contributions to the discovery of DNA’s structure revised. ” Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs 2023:(April).

K. Lee Lerner. “Gun Policy update: Come and Read It.” Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs. 2023:(March)

K. Lee Lerner. “San Antonio, Texas — Remember the Alamo: Both the Heroic Sacrifice and Historical Uncertainties.” Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs. 2023:(March)

K. Lee Lerner. “Scattershooting with Presidential couplets…” Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs. 2023:(February)

K. Lee Lerner. “The forgotten threat of nuclear winter.” Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs. 2022:(January)

K. Lee Lerner. “Reading Caesar.” Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs. 2022:(November)

K. Lee Lerner. “Scattershooting on the science supporting, and perils of, vegetarianism and veganism Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs. 2022:(October)

K. Lee Lerner. “Briefing points: Explosions and gas leaks in the Baltic Sea.” Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs. 2022:(September)

K. Lee Lerner. “Honor due: Queen Elizabeth II.” Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs. 2022:(September)

K. Lee Lerner. “Who speaks for Earth? Renewable energy also carries costs and perils.” Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs. 2022:(August)

K. Lee Lerner. “Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant perils part of novel challenges regarding nuclear safety.” Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs. 2022:(August)

K. Lee Lerner. “Wikipedia Remains the Wild West.” Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs. 2022:(July)

K. Lee Lerner. “Happy Independence Day: In the land of the free, we still must choose to be free.” Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs. 2022:(July)

K. Lee Lerner. “U.S. Border Policies: It’s not just political power that’s at stake, it’s human lives.” Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs. 2022:(June)

K. Lee Lerner. “What does the data tell us about the “good guy with a gun stopping a bad guy with a gun” scenario.” Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs. 2022:(June)

K. Lee Lerner. “Hispanic rejection of exploitive identity politics may save us all.”  Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs 2022:(June)

K. Lee Lerner. “Policymakers must now assume that Iran has the enriched uranium it needs to build a nuclear weapon.” Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs 2022:(June).

K. Lee Lerner. “Memorial Day Reflections.” Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs 2022:(May).

K. Lee Lerner. “Defense Challenges Multiply – Part 1.” Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs 2022:(May).

K. Lee Lerner. “Insurrection, Coup d’état, Revolution: Know the difference” Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs 2022:(May).

K. Lee Lerner. “Iran’s nuclear capabilities: “I say it here, it comes out there.” Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs 2022:(April).

K. Lee Lerner. “Putin’s take it or break it strategy in Ukraine and his perilous nuclear options.” Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs 2022:(March)

K. Lee Lerner. “North Korean missile test reveals both increased capacity and Pyongyang’s smokescreen.” Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs 2022:(March)

K. Lee Lerner. “Russian propaganda and western media cheerleading mask causes, perils, and probable outcomes in Ukraine.” Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs 2022:(March).

K. Lee Lerner. “Iran’s nuclear breakout window narrows.” Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs 2022:(March 9).

K. Lee Lerner. “Honor due: Alamo remembrance days begin” Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs 2022:(February 23).

K. Lee Lerner. “Navy T-28 Engine Failure: Life lessons linger 40 years after.” Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs 2022:(January).

K. Lee Lerner. “Murano Glass: A Fusion of Science, Art, and Mystery.” Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs 2022:(January).

K. Lee Lerner. “COVID is here to stay: Countries must decide how to adapt — Nature Editorial” Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs 2022:(January).

K. Lee Lerner. “Iran’s nuclear progress renders JCPOA moot” Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs 2022:(January).

K. Lee Lerner. “Scientific American does an asinine hit job on E. O. Wilson, calling him a racist” — Jerry Coyne” Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs 2022:(January).

K. Lee Lerner. “Myths Have Their Reasons. Isaac Ariail Reed, The Hedgehog Review” Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs 2022:(January).

K. Lee Lerner. “The Discredited Steele Dossier: A test of media ethics” Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs 2021:(November).

K. Lee Lerner. “Afghanistan — U.S. Withdrawal Debacle: Blood in the water over intelligence reports” Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs 2021:(August).

K. Lee Lerner. “Haiti Remembered” Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs 2021:(August).

K. Lee Lerner. “The 2020 Olympics Golden Moment” Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs 2021:(August).

K. Lee Lerner. “Hemingway: Burns and Novick’s Portrait of the Artist and the Man” Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs 2021:(April).

K. Lee Lerner. “Russian military buildup escalates tensions with Ukraine” Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs 2021:(August).

K. Lee Lerner. “Rest under Texas skies, Larry McMurtry.” Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs 2021:(March).

K. Lee Lerner. “Remember Goliad!” Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs 2021:(March).

K. Lee Lerner. “What Does the End of a Pandemic Look Like?” Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs 2021:(March).

K. Lee Lerner. “Remember the Alamo, but also remember Joe” Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs 2021:(March).

K. Lee Lerner. “Pensacola, Fla — Bravo Zulu Maximus: Chuck Yeager, No Bridge Too Low” Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs 2020:(December).

K. Lee Lerner. “We Were a Force For Good” Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs 2020:(October).

K. Lee Lerner. “The American Use of the Atomic Bomb to End WWII and Contemporary American Attitudes About the Use of Nuclear Weapons” Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs 2020:(August)

K. Lee Lerner. “2019-nCoV Virus Outbreak and Epidemic:  Virus Identification, Classification, Molecular Biology, Epidemiology, Transmission and Epidemic Dynamics” Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs 2020:(January).

K. Lee Lerner. “The American Elimination of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani: Strategic Implications, Asymmetrical Threat Risks, and U.S. Congressional Reporting Requirements” Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs 2020:(January).

K. Lee Lerner. “Move over, M! America now has its first-ever woman DCI” Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs 2018:(May).

K. Lee Lerner. “The Bear Gets a BOGO” Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs 2017:(January).

K. Lee Lerner. “Passages: A Legacy of Trains” Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs 2015:(December)

K. Lee Lerner. “Guns and Gun Control” Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs 2015:(December).

K. Lee Lerner. “French Police Raid Daesh Cell in Saint Denis: Alleged Jihadi and Planner of Terror Attacks in Paris Dead” Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs 2015:(November).

K. Lee Lerner. “Rosalind Franklin deserves more credit for her role as a collaborator in the discovery of the structure of DNA, but she wasn’t the victim many assume.” Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs 2015:(October).

K. Lee Lerner. “Dark skies help bind us to the cosmos” Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs 2015:(April).

K. Lee Lerner. “Chernobyl: The unknown war” Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs 2014:(May).

K. Lee Lerner. “Pripyat, Ukraine –Pripyat and the Legacy of Chernobyl: Inside the Nuclear Exclusion Zone (Photo Essay)” Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs 2014:(August).

K. Lee Lerner. “Kiev, Ukraine — Revolution And Rebellion In Ukraine” Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs 2014:(May).

K. Lee Lerner. “Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, Ukraine — Construction continues on New Safe Confinement (NSC) Dome” Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs 2014:(May).

K. Lee Lerner. “Snowden’s Snow Job” Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs 2014:(April).

K. Lee Lerner. “Fukushima — Inside the Nuclear Exclusion Zone” Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs 2013:(April).

K. Lee Lerner. “Madhapur, India — Desertification creates Displacement Perils: Life around a dying lake.” Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs 2013:(March).

K. Lee Lerner.  “Maasai Mara, Kenya — Crossing the Sand River into bush country.” Taking Bearings.Harvard Blogs 2012:(June).

K. Lee Lerner.”Lack of clean water and sanitation plagues Nairobi slums.” Taking Bearings.Harvard Blogs 2012:(June)

K. Lee Lerner. “The Plight of the Zabbaleen: Who will be a President for ll the people of Egypt?” Taking Bearings.Harvard Blogs 2012:(May).

K. Lee Lerner.  ” CAIRO — Egypt’s Presidential Election Renews Protests in Tahrir Square” Taking Bearings.Harvard Blogs 2012:(May).

K. Lee Lerner. “Don’t Expect Journalism Ethics or the Law to Protect Your Privacy ” Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs 2012:(May).

K. Lee Lerner. “Cambridge, Mass — Kissinger Returns to Harvard” Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs 2012:(April).

K. Lee Lerner. “Paris — Hemingway’s Paris Shortcut: A Movable Feast’s Elusive Backdoor” Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs 2011:(February).

K. Lee Lerner. “Viva Le Tour, Viva La France! Cycling Bédoin to Mont Ventoux Summit!.” Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs 2011:(February).

K. Lee Lerner. “Citizenship Demands We Obey and Resist.” Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs 2010:(July).

K. Lee Lerner. “Teaching Memories.” Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs 2009:(June).

K. Lee Lerner. “WAT THMEY, Cambodia — Legacy of the Khmer Rouge” Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs 2008:(June).

K. Lee Lerner. “Chennai, India — 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami: Lingering Impacts and Recovery Efforts.” Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs 2007:(June).

K. Lee Lerner. “Cairo, Egypt — Women outcast by their families live on the outskirts of Cairo.” Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs 2006:(October).

K. Lee Lerner. “Athens — Parthenon stabilization and restoration efforts continue.” Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs 2006:(January).

K. Lee Lerner. “Hurricane Katrina Brings Waves of Destruction to U.S. Gulf Coast.” Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs 2005:(August).

K. Lee Lerner. “Nanotechnology: the genie is out of the bottle.” Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs 2003:(December).

K. Lee Lerner. “Scientists proclaim great apes in peril” Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs 2003:(December).

K. Lee Lerner. “The 2003 Nobel Prizes in Physiology and Medicine, Physics, and Chemistry: How the winners’ work advanced science and medicine” Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs 2003:(October).

K. Lee Lerner. “Information Age Paradox: Are We Drowning with Oceans of Data at Home and the Workplace?” Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs 2003:(September).

K. Lee Lerner. “Teaching Science: Can print, television, and Internet resources work together?” Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs 2003:(August).

K. Lee Lerner. “Firenze — A Fusion of Art and Science” Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs 2003:(June).

K. Lee Lerner. “Tumult frees Russian soul from long Soviet nightmare (Editorial)” Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs 1991:(December).