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Monday, May 25, 2026

Mittelbau Dora--The Death Camp That Made V-2 Rockets

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  Mittelbau-Dora , located near Nordhausen in central Germany, was one of the most brutal and technically driven camps in the Nazi system. E...
Saturday, May 16, 2026

A Most Elegant Equation: Euler's Formula and the Beauty of Mathematics by David Stipp: The Joy of Understanding!

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  A Most Elegant Equation by David Stipp  is a small book about a large idea: that mathematics, at its deepest level, is not a collection o...
Friday, May 8, 2026

Lincoln at Gettysburg by Garry Wills--The Gettysburg Address Moved America from Constitutional Compromise to Aspiration

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  Garry Wills ’s Lincoln at Gettysburg is a short book with a large argument: that Abraham Lincoln , in just 272 words, redefined the meani...
Thursday, April 30, 2026

Beautiful, Suggestive, and Not Quite Convincing: A review of The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

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  Zoë Schlanger ’s The Light Eaters : How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth is an elegant...
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Saturday, April 25, 2026

Einstein's Cosmos by Michio Kaku

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  Michio Kaku’s Einstein’s Cosmos is a lively, accessible tribute to the great physicist that mixes biography with clear explanations of th...
Monday, April 20, 2026

My Mascot Life

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  I just gave away the tuxedo I bought in 2004. I hadn’t worn it since 2013, so it felt like time to let it go to a better home. Over the ye...
Tuesday, April 14, 2026

Carl Lutz, Visas for Life, and Eric Saul

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Eric Saul (tall man in the middle) at Arch Street Friends Meeting House At the end of March I went to a presentation titled: Visas For Life...
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