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LEWIS THOMAS ON ALTRUISM

I find it very difficult to avoid used bookstores. In fact, it’s pretty rare for me to visit an unfamiliar city – or even a city I know well – and not find myself browsing the shelves of some such store.

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LONGEVITY CHALLENGES – SELF AND CLIMATE

I’ve been spending some time on Mastodon lately – mostly reading, occasionally boosting, rarely posting. As I said in the initial post on this blog, I stepped away from the more mainstream social media sites (think facebook, twitter, and instagram) both because of their algorithmic approach to these things and their capturing of my data.

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WRITING (OR NOT) WITHOUT A DEADLINE

I’ve passed the middle of the month without posting to the blog. Despite my best (or at least very strong) intentions, ’Thinking out loud’ is running the risk of being yet another still-born project.

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THE PRICE OF BOOKS

George Orwell:
In any discussion of the price of books one must take two propositions as axiomatic.

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REVISITING THE PASTS IN THE PRESENT

This weekend I’m gathering with about a dozen friends with whom I attended high school more than 50 years ago.

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GENES: FATE AND CHOICE

Siddhartha Mukherjee:
Genes must carry out programmed responses to environments – otherwise, there would be no conserved form.

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