Tuesday, January 27, 2026

Before bows and arrows, hunters used spear throwers called atlatals

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                    There is a 2025 book by Sam Kean titled Dinner with King Tut: How rogue archeologists are re-creatin...
Monday, January 26, 2026

What did Egyptian laborers who built the pyramids eat?

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                        There is a 2025 book by Sam Kean titled Dinner with King Tut: How rogue archeologists are re-crea...
Saturday, January 24, 2026

Superficial research in an article about fear of mass shootings

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                          There is an article with superficial research by James Alan Fox at USA Today on January 14, 2...
Thursday, January 22, 2026

A free Reference Guide to American English Idioms

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                                                        Idioms are important in speechwriting. The Merriam-Webster Dictio...
Wednesday, January 21, 2026

Steeped in an excellent metaphor

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                          There is a very serious, 9-page pdf article by Pragnesh Parmar and Gunvanti Rathod at Academic...
Tuesday, January 20, 2026

Life in the Present is a wonderfully joyful little book of comics by Liz Climo

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                                  There is a 112-page book from 2024 by Liz Climo titled Life in the Present: a joyful ...
Sunday, January 18, 2026

According to eight Chapman Surveys of American Fears, more adults fear sharks than fear public speaking – but neither is their top fear.

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                        Way back on October 27, 2009 I blogged about an often-quoted old survey (where public speaking w...