Karl Grossman
Karl is a veteran investigative reporter and columnist, the winner of numerous awards for his work and a member of the L.I. Journalism Hall of Fame. He is a professor of journalism at SUNY at Old Westbury and the author of eight books. Karl lives in Sag Harbor.
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A dangerous return to nuclear weapons testing is on the Project 2025 agenda
After conducting 928 nuclear tests, the US ended full-scale nuclear tests in 1992. Project 2025 calls for the administration to recommit to ‘the nuclear mission’ and reject ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. Columnist Karl Grossman examines the consequences.
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Student cell phone use in classrooms diverts attention, undermines education
Gov. Hochul's proposal will help create a classroom environment where students can focus and learn: Column by Karl Grossman.
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Suffolk must stop wasting treated wastewater. Irrigating county golf courses is a good first step.
Reusing the hundreds of millions of gallons of treated wastewater produced in Suffolk each year will help preserve and recharge the underground water table.
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The impacts of eugenics: Nazi experiments, forced sterilizations, US immigration law
As the eugenics movement spread across the globe, its impacts were seen in Nazi ideology, restrictive U.S. immigration law and forced sterilizations in Germany and the U.S.
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How influential biologist at L.I. lab amplified the pseudoscience of eugenics
“The founding fathers of eugenics in England,” writes Mark Torres, “had formulated the theoretical concepts of human hereditary research. It was only...
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‘Epicenter’ of global eugenics movement was right here in Suffolk County
Eugenics, the pseudoscience that aimed to develop a master race of human beings with the purest blood and the most desirable hereditary traits was truly made in America — at the Cold Spring Harbor lab in Suffolk, the global headquarters of the eugenics movement for three decades.
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Do political attack ads really win elections?
Slick and effective character assassination nowadays makes political mudslinging in days of yore seem primitive.
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No, nuclear power is not clean energy
Safe-energy activists are concerned that Long Island might again be targeted for nuclear power plants, as proponents push the claim that it's "carbon-free.
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Depleted drinking water aquifer in Queens and Nassau offers important lessons for Suffolk
The future of our sole source aquifer depends on better wastewater management practices. Treated wastewater should be recharged to groundwater rather than discharged to coastal waters.
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Pesticide used to kill rodents has unintended victims, like the bald eagle. Here’s how.
This spring, wildlife biologist Mike Bottini was working at Montauk County Park when, beneath an eagle’s nest, he came upon a dead adult bald eagle. A necropsy report done on the dead bird established it had died from rat poison.
