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  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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  2. 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: , , , ,

  3. Pop, Pop-Up, and Popping Weasels

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    July 24, 2025 by libroshombre

                Billie Holiday once said, “Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was …
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  4. Cockroaches, Melting Hearts, and Mark Twain’s Library

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    May 12, 2025 by libroshombre

    Getting from having a cockroach to Mark Twain’s death-defying miracle started with reflecting on weird idioms, “a group of words …
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    Category: books, grammar, languages, libraries, love, printers, printing | Tags: , , , , , ,

  5. Oldest Languages, Harmful Tablets, and Cryptomnesia

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    March 24, 2025 by libroshombre

                Robert Louis Stevenson might have been right when he claimed that “Language is but a poor bull’s eye lantern …
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  6. Baseball, Xenophobia, and Optimism

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    February 14, 2025 by libroshombre

                The Sage of Baltimore, H.L. Mencken, is largely forgotten these days, but as a magazine journalist writer, editor, and …
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    Category: American English, baseball, language, racism, reference books, word origins, words, xenophobia | Tags: , , , , , , ,

  7. Small Words, Fast Talking, and Bluestockings

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    February 5, 2025 by libroshombre

                Our public library possesses an enchanting array of rare and valuable books, but as John Lennon once said, “Possession …
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  8. 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: , , , , , , , , ,

  9. Jack’s House, Montaigne’s Essays, and Florio

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    January 3, 2025 by libroshombre

                It’s confession time; I’m an annotator (a person who adds explanatory or critical notes to a text) and often write …
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  10. Tomfoolery, Justice, and Imprisoning Librarians

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    September 21, 2024 by libroshombre

                Around 2,000 years ago Cicero, the Roman lawyer and statesman, called justice “the crowning glory of the virtues.”  If so, how …
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    Category: books, censorship, civility, crime, justice, law, librarians, libraries, public libraries, punishment, school libraries, theft | Tags: , , , , , , , ,

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