Category Archives: reading brain

  1. Santa’s Physics, Spaghettification, and Stupidity

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    December 5, 2025 by libroshombre

    Albert Einstein and Carl Sagan both knew a lot about science.  Sagan said, “We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science …
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    Category: astronomy, books, holidays, physics, reading, reading brain, science | Tags: , , , , , ,

  2. Winners, Losers, and Screens

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    November 3, 2025 by libroshombre

                Bill Gates, who knows a bit about winning, said “Success is a lousy teacher.  It seduces smart people into thinking they …
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    Category: children, deep reading, reading, reading brain, reading well, schools | Tags: , ,

  3. Actaeon’s Dogs, Reading Neurobiologically, and de Gaulle

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    November 2, 2025 by libroshombre

    The eminently browsable Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable has revealed Ovid’s list of the fifty dogs who were once …
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    Category: animals, books, dogs, libraries, literacy, mythology, paper, print, reading, reading brain | Tags: , , , ,

  4. Davy Crockett, Inquisitions, and Bad Ideas

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    February 5, 2025 by libroshombre

                Davy Crockett and Jimmy Hoffa both had plenty of attitude.  As Hoffa put it, “I may have my faults, …
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    Category: book banning, book burning, book clubs, reading, reading brain, reading well | Tags: , , , , , , , , ,

  5. UFOs, Conan, and Novel Circuits

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    December 8, 2023 by libroshombre

                “Which Presidents Have Seen UFOS?  Yep, It’s More Than one,” a Politco.com article by Garrett Graff that ran last …
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    Category: deep reading, fantasy, reading, reading brain, reading well, Robert E. Howard, science fiction | Tags: , , , ,

  6. Bad News, Hats, and Equity Language

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    March 31, 2023 by libroshombre

                   Hats have always adorned my noggin, and as my marvelous momma traveled the world she always inevitably returned with …
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    Category: fiction, hats, language, reading, reading brain, words | Tags: , , , , ,

  7. King Ludd, Flow States, and Bill Russell

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    February 3, 2023 by libroshombre

                Flow states, switch-cost effect, and ludditeism have been worrisome lately; it started with a thought-terminating cliché, which is also …
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    Category: attention, computers, reading, reading brain, technology | Tags: , , ,

  8. Comics, Maypoles, and Book Banning

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    March 12, 2022 by libroshombre

    Carl Sagan is certainly missed; apart from his glowing cosmological credentials and general brilliance, he was insightful while maintaining his …
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    Category: book banning, books, comics, education, libraries, public libraries, reading, reading brain, school librarians, school libraries | Tags: , , , , , , , , ,

  9. How Marilyn Monroe, Winston Churchill, and I Are Alike

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    August 14, 2019 by libroshombre

    LIBRARIAN COLUMN Contact Greg Hill 479-4344                                                   July 18, 2019 Robert Louis Stevenson claimed that, “To forget oneself is to be …
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    Category: aging, alzheimer's, books, boostacks, brain, reading, reading brain, Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , ,

  10. Puppies, Spies, and Brains

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    October 11, 2018 by libroshombre

    Last week two fellow Osher Lifelong Learning students passed along some library-related amusements. One item, a Peanuts strip showing Charlie …
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    Category: libraries, library cards, reading brain, Uncategorized | Tags: , , ,

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