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Thursday, January 23, 2025

Tattoos are Rare in Panama

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  Sleeve tattoos like the one above are common in Panama City, Florida, not mention Philadelphia, Portland, Pittsburgh and Phoenix, but not ...
Sunday, January 19, 2025

A Review of An Immense World by Ed Yong

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In the fall of 2024 I read An Immense World   with the Evolution Round Table at Franklin and Marshall College, a group I have been part of f...
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Bilingual Books and the Challenge of Lifelong Learning

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More than a decade ago in a Paris bookstore I picked up French-Greek edition of The Gospel of John, Jean Evangile: traduit du grec, preface ...
Thursday, January 9, 2025

Israel Alone by Bernard-Henri Levy--The World Changed The Month It Was Published

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  On September 10 of the year just passed Bernard-Henri Levy published his new book Israel Alone .  I have read several of Levy's books ...
Saturday, January 4, 2025

Tribe by Sebastian Junger -- The Ancient Roots of Many Problems of the Modern World

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In October, I went a conference on Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism .  The first and featured speaker was Sebastian Junger , author of seven bo...
Thursday, January 2, 2025

The French Roots of Sinatra's "I Did It My Way"

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In November 1968, Frank Sinatra told his friend and collaborator Paul Anka that he was tired and ready to give up show business. Sinatra had...
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

"Never Eat With Dirty Hands" Advice I Didn't Follow

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  In the 10th grade at Stoneham High School near Boston our biology teacher, Sonia Jones, told us "Never eat with dirty hands!" Sh...
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