I loved reading The Boys in the Boat over the summer. Impossible doings, like helping build a dam by dangling over and down a cliff face, and using a hammer while you hanging there, without sending yourself into an out-and-back ride ending with a smash, are legendary, and a legend is something that you share, [...]
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Musings on the Biosphere
I went to college in a warm, flat, southern place, so I never gave much thought to a place like Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. It is perched above the Connecticut River, but owns part of a mountain. Not flat. I stumbled over the alumni website and read articles about the Biosphere project and climbing [...]
Poetry today …
I found some poetry to share, written by Wallace Irwin. He was admired by Dr. Lambert of Tuesday's public health stories. The Rhyme of the Chivalrous Shark Most chivalrous fish of the oceanTo ladies forbearing and mild,Though his record be dark,Is the man-eating shark,Who will eat neither woman nor child. He dines upon seamen and [...]
Public health in the 1920’s
I thought about putting hookworm in the title and decided that was a bad idea. I’ve been wandering through Project Gutenberg and found a story that I’m reading very slowly. It’s about a public health campaign I never heard of before, carried out with Rockefeller foundation money, in the tropics in the 1920’s. A Yankee [...]
Still life with apples
While looking up apples on the Internet earlier this week I came across a discussion of mealy apples, and why it’s worth cooking with them. I was fascinated and let the information percolate for a bit, but here is the deal. Being living matter, apples are made up of cells. And being plants they have [...]
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