Stay vigilant and keep motivated I’ve mentioned it in other articles, but it bears repeating — successful retirement is about re-building your life from the ground up, replacing the structure and...
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The Book of Charlatans:13th Century Middle Eastern Con Games
The Spanish Prisoner, Pig in a Poke, The Long Con, the Short Con and Everything In Between… Grifters, card sharks, hustlers, and ‘yeggs’, mechanics, and hand-guys, the list could go on for ever. If...
Hearing Aids: Do’s and Certainly Don’ts
The more you know… Before we begin this next installment of our ‘Things You Should Know’, we just wanted to follow up on our last edition, ‘Glasses’. Some folks liked the piece and others, not...
AI Comes Clean
Artificial Intelligence rats itself out. Unless you’ve slept through the last few months (and who could blame you if you did), you would know that the pundits are expounding on the vast...
More Deadly than Caste
Three tiers of racist ideology. Bob Gordh In her recent bestseller Caste, Isabel Wilkerson sought to explain the nature of White Supremacist, (or simply racist) ideology in the United States. I...
How Schools Can Smother Education
It’s time to reset our priorities. Bill Wood Let’s follow up a bit on the issue of imagination and how children develop through thinking about things they’ve never seen or...
Is Imagination Necessary Today?
Yes, and we can help our children develop that skill. By Bill Wood I had a long lunchtime conversation with a young mother today about her child’s imagination; about her daughter’s...
She’s Baaaack!
Bugatti has stepped it up, but faces new competition Yes, she is back. We are talking about the Bugatti Chiron. Just when you thought you had heard the last of this 3 million dollar beauty, Bugatti...
Touring Southern Normandy
Exploring France’s medieval heritage. In two earlier articles we outlined tours of Upper Normandy (Haute Normandie), around the vicinity of its regional capital, Rouen. Now we move on to Lower...
Robots…
Can’t live with ‘em, can’t run away from ‘em Recently while doing nothing, which I do quite well, I was startled by a mechanical noise coming from my bedroom. Trusty broom in hand I ventured forth...
