Monthly Archives: December 2016

  1. Thumbs, Purring Hyoids, and Zsa Zsa Gabor

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    December 28, 2016 by libroshombre

    We should feed our cat “as much as it will eat in thirty minutes, twice a day,” says a book …
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    Category: cats, language, languages, libraries, speech, Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , , ,

  2. Sagan, Occam, and the Muse of Curiosity

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    December 16, 2016 by libroshombre

      “All About Words: An Adult Approach to Vocabulary Building” is a solid additional to any bathroom’s library. Mine, for …
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    Category: books, catalogs, curiosity, public libraries, sleep, Uncategorized, vocabulary | Tags: , , , , ,

  3. Gobbling, Garbling, and Gobbledygook

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    December 16, 2016 by libroshombre

      Why can’t we all get along? After all, every human on Earth is related. A research group at Germany’s …
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  4. Strange Catalogs, Labyrinthine Libraries, and Bookmobiles

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    December 6, 2016 by libroshombre

    Once I visited merry England and unexpectedly found myself inside Chetham’s Library, the first English-language public library in the world. …
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  5. Anu, Noah, and Beverly

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    December 2, 2016 by libroshombre

      The term “culprit” has been on my mind since I lost most of a recent powerpoint presentation due to …
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    Category: dictionaries, language, Uncategorized, word origins, words | Tags: , , , , , ,

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