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 [...]
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 [...]
Three little bits…
First ... I read a really annoying essay on a substack called Raised by Germans. It’s all about a girl who grew up in the 90’s and was, shocker of shockers, a tomboy. She thinks it was a new thing. I was a tomboy.But so were the majority of girls when I grew up. I [...]
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