Category Archives: pandemic
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Radioactive Toys, Staple Removers, and Ubuntu
Leave a commentNovember 30, 2021 by libroshombre
LIBRARIAN COLUMN “The Rudest States in the United States,” an internet article by Kathy Morris, left me ruminating about anger …
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Thumbs, Maxims, and Regret
Leave a commentNovember 6, 2021 by libroshombre
“Doctors say that our thumb is our master-finger and that our French word for it, ‘pouce,’ derives from the Latin …
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Reading: A Pandemic Silver Lining
Leave a commentJanuary 28, 2021 by libroshombre
The last time the US Capitol was ransacked, it was by the British who also destroyed the nascent national …
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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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Founts, Gags, and Reality
Leave a commentOctober 2, 2020 by libroshombre
A “fount of knowledge” is “a person, organization, book, etc. that provides reliable information, advice, or ideas,” according to …
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Covid, Euclid, and the Isle of Demons
Leave a commentSeptember 24, 2020 by libroshombre
A series of unfortunate events crippled my understanding of algebra, but geometry made sense, thanks to Pete Johnson, my …
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