Tuesday, October 4, 2022

Fairy tales from the Gem State Patriot News about Rachel Carson and her book Silent Spring

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                                      At the Gem State Patriot News on October 2, 2022 there is an article by Dr. John ...
Monday, October 3, 2022

General or specific warnings (and disclaimers)

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                                      On October 1, 2022 there is an F Minus cartoon by Tony Carrillo showing a general...
Saturday, October 1, 2022

Retired Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield answers ‘Table Topics’ questions

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                                    A Toastmasters club meeting features an impromptu speaking section (called Table Topi...
Thursday, September 29, 2022

A list from a 110-year-old medical dictionary with almost a hundred phobias

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                        At Google Books I ran across a 1912 edition of Stedman’s Medical Dictionary . Page 687 has a def...
Tuesday, September 27, 2022

Learning the art of active listening

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                                                      On August 29, 2022 Doug Savage published the Savage Chickens cart...
Sunday, September 25, 2022

Donald Trump is spouting even more nonsense, this time about declassifying documents

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                      On September 21, 2022 our former president was interviewed by Sean Hannity on Fox News. He made th...
Saturday, September 24, 2022

A YouGov America poll in June 2022 found public speaking was the fourth most common fear for adults (23%) and women (26%), but the second most common for men (20%)

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  There is an article by Taylor Orth at YouGov America on June 16, 2022 titled Three in 10 Americans fear snakes – and m...