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A recent article in Science extolled the marvels of a normally-neglected organ: the tongue. It covered the evolution of a thing that, for humans, is…
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The Royal "We"
We are exhausted by all the tedious palaver about this week’s Coronation. Frankly, it’s been much ado about nothing. It’s not like being King means…
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Trinity
Woke up this morning thinking about this. Maybe it was the sound of church bells—working their subliminal magic—or the fact that I was visited by a…
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Spring Hopes Eternal
A Pathetic Love Story
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If You Knew Scusi, Like I know Scusi...
For most of my life, I’ve been large—tall, and for many of those years, fairly rotund. I’ve always been acutely aware of taking up more than my fair…
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Food for Thought
I’ve often described myself as a dilettante, someone who flits from one thing to another. It implied a certain triviality, an absence of depth. But I…
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A Texas Twofer
It’s no secret that writers (almost all of them) are not paid a living—or any other kind of—wage for their work. Invariably, they must find some other…
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