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Trust. The election is coming. The news is full of contradictory information. I get emails citing incredible events daily—one included a...
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Oct 188 min read
How to Start a War
How To Start a War, by Trapani This book carefully navigates how the Nazi’s came to power. It is well written and the author takes pains...
Oct 180 min read
Oct 181 min read
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News source : JOLT (Journal of Olympia Lacey Tumwater) is a free on-line local news service that shows the Daily Olympian up! Try it out...
Sep 191 min read
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Shows: Wyatt Earp on Netflix—dramatized documentary was better than expected Pachinko on Apple-This book is often raised as one of the...
Sep 191 min read
IMAGES
Rapa Nui! I THOUGHT THIS COVER WAS A PARODY. I GOOGLED THE AUTHOR--YOU SHOULD TOO!
Sep 199 min read
Funny Death Stories
NYT:this should open even without a subscription: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/26/well/patients-dnr-orders-ignored.html?smid=em-sh...
Sep 192 min read
Long Covid Update
In a bulleted format: From Twiv (this week in virology), recorded 5/31/2024 Researcher Judith Bruchfeld, a researcher in Sweden is...
Aug 191 min read
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Interesting articles: South Carolina cops target out-of-state drivers for highway robbery https://reason.com/2024/08/06/south-carolina-co...
Aug 190 min read
Aug 196 min read
Our First Civil War
Our First Civil War by H.W. Brands I purchased this book thinking it would give community level examples of how the war for independence...
Aug 196 min read
Fanny
Years ago, a talented oncology nurse found herself in a new town with a five year old child with another on the way. When looking for...
Jul 229 min read
Orwell's Cough
Orwell’s Cough, by John Ross This book offers a series of social histories and biographies with an emphasis on specific medical maladies...
Jul 227 min read
Memory
My “thesis” at Santa Cruz was an experiment on two unfortunate cats trying to demonstrate that a memory is easier to recall when under...
Jul 220 min read
Jul 221 min read
Recommendations July 2024
Shows: I Claudius (PBS)—I watched this in the 1980’s and it has aged well. Ye gads, could that be us? Sunny. Amazon—Japanese story with a...
Jun 171 min read
Images
All from Monte Carlo sight seeing Malaga Tangiers Bike ride down to the beach Malaga city and Cathedral Lisboa Porto Park Sculpture and...
Jun 1713 min read
My Trip to Another World
Years ago, on a trip to Europe, Kernie and I had an epiphany: many of our co-travelers were of retirement age and could not enjoy half...
Jun 178 min read
Innovators by Donald Kirsch
Anecdotes from a “Reader’s Digest” summary of some famous innovators in science, and lessons they bring. To be successful in the sciences...
Jun 172 min read
Recommendations, June 2024
Books: A Study in Scarlet: my first Sherlock Holmes story and it is the novel that introduced Watson. I was surprised at how good this...
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