Category Archives: health
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States of Nature, Dark Triads, and Masking
Leave a commentJanuary 21, 2021 by libroshombre
LIBRARIAN COLUMN Contact Greg hill, 479-4344 January 21m 2021 Confucius taught that “Without knowing the force of words, it …
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Laughing at Pandemics, Kings, and Abracadabra
Leave a commentJanuary 14, 2021 by libroshombre
Merriam-Webster.com has announced that, “based upon a statistical analysis of words that are looked up in extremely high numbers …
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Hotdogs, Vaccinations, and Tree Bending Poets
Leave a commentOctober 16, 2020 by libroshombre
Dipping a toe into the Internet’s torrent of real and unreal information is all that’s required for a full …
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Earwax, Book Banning, and the Mat-Su School Board
Leave a commentMay 16, 2020 by libroshombre
“Worrisome thoughts and their resulting feelings are a form of self-strangulation,” according to life-style philosopher Andrew J. Bernstein. “They not …
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Stinkers, Dictators, and Egg Spoons
Leave a commentMay 14, 2018 by libroshombre
People appearing to be real stinkers might simply be under the sway of their microbes. After all, BBC.com’s James …
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Poprocks, Paraprosdokians, and Kindness
Leave a commentFebruary 10, 2015 by libroshombre
Voltaire’s 18th century warning remains valid. “It is dangerous,” he wrote, “to be right in matters on which the established …
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Swapping Spit, Being Cold, and Getting Smart
Leave a commentJanuary 27, 2015 by libroshombre
Vladimir Nabokov’s opinion that, “revelation can be more dangerous than revolution,” resonated after reading about several new scientific discoveries. The …
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Phantoms, Idiots, and Restrooms
Leave a commentDecember 18, 2014 by libroshombre
Old Fort Phantom’s remains stand on a rise just north of Abilene, Texas, where I grew up. We boys usually …
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Hormones, Peccadillos, and Other Annoyances
Leave a commentDecember 11, 2014 by libroshombre
One of my favorite hormones was featured in a recent Mental Floss article by Jessica Hullinger titled “6 Fascinating Facts …
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Therapeutic Reading, Raymond Chandler, and the Library of America
Leave a commentAugust 28, 2014 by libroshombre
Some anonymous ancient wise guy once called his library “a hospital of the mind.” That applies to my personal library, …
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