Category Archives: librarians
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Nazis, Blockheads, and Libraries’ 5 Laws
Leave a commentNovember 24, 2018 by libroshombre
“Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library,” Ralph Waldo Emerson once suggested. “A company of the wisest …
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Flamingoes, Naked Mole Rats, and Sleepers
Leave a commentAugust 1, 2017 by libroshombre
The age-old mystery of how flamingoes sleep on one leg without falling over has finally been resolved. Biologists at …
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Explicating Cussing and Cussing Book Tieves
Leave a commentAugust 1, 2017 by libroshombre
“Cussin’” arose the other day while discussing the differences between the terms “expletive” and explicative,” and this triggered a …
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Abhorring Information Banning
Leave a commentApril 24, 2017 by libroshombre
A recent round of reading has left me ready to revive the seventeenth-century British political party known as “the …
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T, Temple, and Lady Betty
2April 24, 2017 by libroshombre
It might have been learning about Richard “Waterfront” Brown during Osher Lifelong Learning’s Fairbanks history class that got me …
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