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Tie a knot, write a list, whittle a flute, twirl spaghetti round your fork. If you have paws, hooves, wings these maneuvers aren’t in your …
Tie a knot, write a list, whittle a flute, twirl spaghetti round your fork. If you have paws, hooves, wings these maneuvers aren’t in your …
It’s a curiously human emotion, hate. We seem to have it in our genes, no one’s exempt. Dogs, cats, turkeys don’t hate anonymous dogs, cats, poultry. But hate is …
November 13. Daesh (aka ISIS) attacks various sites in Paris, France. Blood, bodies, horror, rage. Voices rise blaming Syrian refugees and French Muslims. November 18. French President …
I’d like to ask the great Margie Hendricks and the great Ray Charles to give voice to this statue. [youtube]https://youtu.be/qyufGAdqOWA[/youtube] ___________________________ For me that’s “Telling …
How do you relate to something that isn’t there, but was? Two people close to me have died within the last 2 months after struggling …
This is a follow-up to my recent blogpost Travelogue from England and Spain – Part I I’ve never seen this remarkable town but it well illustrates …
This blogpost contains scattershot impressions of three weeks in England, Spain, and England again. Zipping along curvy country lanes near Salisbury, England in a car confidently driven by …
Every seed is awakened and so is all animal life. It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being and we therefore …
This infographic in Scientific American gnawed at me until I went back to study it. I ask you to look too. It’s divided into four …
If you show people two objects and ask which is a bing and which a bong they can often agree. Theories have been spun to explain this but …
Thinking about that which cannot be thought about. The emerald stashed in the heart of a Japanese temari ball — you’re delighted by the expert working of threads …
What could be more American than Fourth of July on Cape Cod? Let me tell you. Start with four old friends and an Iranian teenager. …
My mother’s family was actively American. Example: a few of us kept an Underground Railroad safe house for escaping slaves in the Civil War. I say a …
The first stone tools were made by animals 1.1 million years before those animals evolved to be early humans. They could well have looked like this reconstruction of an …
The international Human Genome Project took less than 20 years from first funding proposal to its announced completion. Now the United States and the European …
Among the delights in viewing a firehose blast of images is that you get unexpected ahas. Ever notice how common it is for one species …
Golden hats (or Gold hats) (German: Goldhüte, singular: Goldhut) are a very specific and rare type of archaeological artifact from Bronze Age Europe. So …
For simplicity: a sphere. No angles to count or measure degrees of, no corners to snag a hem on, just center-point, radii, surface, volume. Subtract one …
Let’s define our terms — scissors refers to a common cutting device that the ancient Egyptians purportedly used. Runs with scissors is a modern expression meaning …
I grew up in an educated household that did not believe in space aliens. Period. What were we, idiots? Yet now you and I live in …