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Lately I’ve been shoe shopping and have been amazed at developments in shoe technology. By “shoe technology” I don’t mean the technology of manufacturing shoes, I mean the technology of putting the shoe on your foot.
Perhaps, like me, you have found that when authors write about obscure historical figures, their work becomes more a history of the era than an actual biography.
Lately, I have been thinking about my granddaughter’s education. I’ve been saddened by the fact that she may not be able to take Latin and that being in a non-religious family, she may not learn of much of the Bible.
A very strange thing happened at my house one Saturday night in the spring of 1993.
Among the many jokes and platitudes going around the Internet about the coronavirus, one of my favorites is the picture of Sir Isaac Newton with the story of his time during the plague.
I used to think that the Golden Ratio was a mysterious mathematical thing that would show us some basic mechanism by which the universe is organized, but on digging a little deeper, I found that the concept has been challenged or debunked in almost all areas in which it has been cited.
At Thanksgiving my nine-year-old granddaughter took my laptop and wrote an essay about her latest tech acquisition, a GizmoWatch.
Answer truthfully the following question: Will the next word you say be ‘no’?
Seventy-six years after his death, the government is still looking for my uncle.
I have been thinking about children and their relationship to today’s electronic devices. Several of my friends are of the opinion that small children should be denied use of these devices so that other aspects of their development, e.g., physical and social, are not compromised.