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Mystic pizza
One of the last memes that Peter Kirk passed along was “what type of pizza are you?” Now he’s back with another, this time a “Spiritual Types Test“. But while Peter scores as a Sage, I’ve come in as a Mystic:
You are a Mystic, known for your imaginative, intuitive spirituality. You value peace, harmony, and [...]
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Drink coffee… live longer!
HT: Josephine Marcotty, StarTribune.com
Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health studied the histories of 125,000 men and women who reported how much coffee they drank between 1980 and 2004. The more coffee they drank, the less likely they were to die from a heart attack or cardiovascular disease. That was especially true for women. Compared [...]
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I remember…
HT: Iyov, for the link to this article.
As tedious as footnotes can be to read, they can be even more so to produce. For high school students and undergraduates, footnotes seem less a test of research skills or academic honesty than a trial of one’s endurance and equanimity. In the heyday of the typewriter, footnotes [...]
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The Bible says what?!
Every once in a while you run across a verse or two that make you pause and scratch at your nose in bewilderment:
Give strong drink to the hapless
And wine to the embittered.
Let them drink and forget their poverty,
And put their troubles out of mind.
Proverbs 31:6-7 (Tanakh Translation, JPS)
These verses are bookended by the admonishments for [...]
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Is your household ballot “one flesh”?