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These are stories that a very old man remembers. They could not have happened to anyone else. Professor Alain Corcos is a native of France. He came to the United States twice -- first as a member of the French Air Force in November 1944 after escaping from Vichy France three months before D-Day. He came back to the States as a student earning a PhD in plant breeding and taught the nature and philosophy of science for twenty-six years at Michig...

During all its history humanity it seems, has not learned a thing about the stupidity of war and its horrors. Today, the Middle East is in flames, Israelis are fighting the Palestinians, there is killing each day in Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, and other parts of the world, cities are destroyed by incessant bombing. Victims are fleeing the killing, and emigration to Europe is at an all-time high.But contrary to the young soldiers in the US...

Two global dangers face humanity: climate change and nuclear war. In the last few years, people have realized that the first was real.According to the US Global Change Research Program, Earth's climate is now changing faster than at any point in the history of modern civilization, primarily due to human activities. There continues to be a wide range of impacts across every region of the country and many sectors of the economy.Storms, hurricane...

By the end of the twentieth century, biologists and anthropologists concluded that there are no human races. In Three Biological Myths: Race, Ancestry, Ethnicity, Professor Alain F. Corcos raises the question: What about ethnicity? Is it also a biological myth? He also asks a very important question in a time when people are busy looking for their roots: What did your ancestors transmit to you? The answers may surprise you.Human diversity occu...

Michigan State University had a college teaching general education in humanities, social sciences, natural science, and arts and letters to freshmen. At first, these science courses were mandatory for every student, but then were required only for non-science majors. Unlike traditional introductory science courses, they focused on the nature and history of science. Teaching these courses to students who, for the most part, hated science for on...

Alain Corcos, author of The Little Yellow Train, presents different moments in history from the perspective of his family and friends. This is a must-read for anyone who wishes to gain insight into how historical events impact the everyday lives of those who experience them.

I lived with my parents and my brother in southern France under the German occupation from 1940 to 1944. We did not practice any religion, but we were Jews according to Hitler because of our ancestry. And since we had "Jewish blood" we were destined to perish. My direct family survived, which is attributed to them refusing to have anything to do with "racial" laws. However, I lost two uncles, two aunts, and two cousins in death camps. In March...

Alain F. Corcos was raised by a family of nonbelievers. When he grew up and pursued a career in science, he encountered nothing to challenge his lack of faith. In fact, he would have considered his atheism completely unremarkable if not for the reactions he confronted again and again: - How can you be moral when you don't believe in God? - If you know you can't prove God doesn't exist, doesn't that make you agnostic? - Aren't you afraid of dea...

American public schools are in deep trouble. They are still characterized by ethnic and class segregation, grossly unequal teaching and learning facilities, and governed by mammoth bureaucracies with a plethora of contradictory policies and goals. For many low and medium income students, college is still not an option due to high tuition rates and poor primary school education. Is there any hope? Affirmative Action for All Our Children: And Wh...

The idea that human races exist is a socially constructed myth that has no grounding in science. Regardless of skin, hair, or eye color, stature or physiognomy, we are all of one race. Nonetheless, scientists, social scientists, and pseudo-scientists have, for three centuries, tried vainly to prove that distinctive and separate "races" of humanity exist. These protagonists of race theory have based their flawed research on one or more of five ...

Between 1940 and 1944, when Alain Corcos was a teenager, the Germans systematically plundered the French countryside to feed their own armed forces and civilians. Both the Nazis and the fascist Vichy government forced everyone with "Jewish blood" to register as Jews, condemning those who complied to death in concentration camps. The Little Yellow Train chronicles the years of occupation in France, describing the Corcos family's struggles to su...