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I feel like a number.          (Bob Seger)
A long time ago, in high school, I devoured math classes.  Interesting, even very cool, numbers fascinated me. I still love the trigonometry of sailing - though usually with my instruments turned off so that my senses and my instincts are turned on. I use...
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Nice-olation

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“Oh, what a nice guy!!!”

Lili von Shtupp in Blazing Saddles 

All fog and no risk

Is nice a compliment? A dismissal? A distraction? A lack of a better adjective? When Craig shared the story in the video, I fell in love with the concept, pulling back the curtain on the perils...
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Socioautoimmune Disease

Thirty trillion occupants

Bill Bryson is a marvelous writer. And a blazingly curious thinker. The Body: A Guide for Occupants, has kept me from sleep on more than one evening. Here's one of his nuggets: It seems that the human body contains about 30,000,000,000,000 living cells. That sounded like a lot to me so I tried counting to...
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My Very Best Friends I Have Never Met

"They could not live without petting."

About 900 years ago, more or less, the king of Sicily - a fellow named Frederick II - decided he could conduct an experiment. We know that, among other darknesses, people with too much power lose a couple of important things: Empathy and Impulse Control. Fred was no exception. He surmised...
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