Saturday, April 5, 2025

Cory Booker delivered the longest speech in the history of the United States Senate

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                                    Cory Booker is a Democrat and the senior senator from the state of New Jersey. Start...
Thursday, April 3, 2025

Remembering skeptical investigator Joe Nickell

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                                                      I have long enjoyed reading articles and books by Joe Nickell , par...
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Add a hundred or more gestures to your vocabulary with baby sign language

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                            There is an article in the April 2023 issue of Toastmaster magazine titled Back to the BASI...
Monday, March 31, 2025

According to a Pearls Before Swine cartoon there are four groups of people

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                                            On January 19, 2024 I blogged about The joy of 2x2 tables, or charts, or mat...
Sunday, March 30, 2025

Allokataplixis is a recent word for that feeling when travel makes everything new

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                            In an article by Liam Henneghan at Aeon on September 18, 2017 titled We have a new word for...
Saturday, March 29, 2025

Square Units: an amusing comic strip at xkcd

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                                                  At Randall Munroe’s xkcd webcomic on March 19, 2025 there is the comic...
Friday, March 28, 2025

An excellent story about being careful to solve the right problem

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                        Design thinking is a set of cognitive, strategic, and practical procedures that designers use. I ...