Category Archives: reading brain
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King Ludd, Flow States, and Bill Russell
Leave a commentFebruary 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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Comics, Maypoles, and Book Banning
Leave a commentMarch 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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How Marilyn Monroe, Winston Churchill, and I Are Alike
Leave a commentAugust 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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Puppies, Spies, and Brains
Leave a commentOctober 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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Books, Books, More Books!
Leave a commentOctober 14, 2017 by libroshombre
Long ago I took up the banner of bibliophile Winston Churchill: “If you cannot read all your books, at …
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Yogi, Gene, and Norman
Leave a commentJanuary 9, 2016 by libroshombre
Once Yogi Berra was asked to explain a particularly awful Yankees outing. “We made too many wrong mistakes,” he …
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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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Old Water, Tear Topography, and Why Geezers Grin
Leave a commentDecember 25, 2014 by libroshombre
“Water is the driving force of all nature,” observed Leonardo da Vinci, and earth’s water predates the sun, according to …
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Loving Countries and Re-wiring the Brain with Books
Leave a commentFebruary 20, 2014 by libroshombre
If the Gallup pollsters survey of the world’s “most loved countries” is to be believed, it’s time to move to …
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