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The power of scents
You learn things in life, like the scent of your mother or the smell of braciole stewing in tomato sauce on a Sunday morning.
Rick's List — Artificial Intelligence Edition
I sometimes think we get so caught up in the raging river of idiocy that is now our society — bellowing, unyielding, ears-stitched-shut, dogmatic nuts on BOTH sides of any argument — that we're overlooking one small thing. The end of the world. I'm...
Shaddup already with the tweeting!
No, not THOSE tweets from Washington (though, come to think of it, we all could do without them) but the ones in my backyard, where some birds have been driving me nuts with nonstop squawking, shrieking whistling and screeching.
Rick's List — Here's Bees in Your Eye Edition
As I write, the news about a patient I call "Bee Girl" is just breaking. By the time you read this, though, days later, I suspect Bee Girl will have become a huge story and I'll seem "late to the party." Well, it's irresistible. And, if somehow you haven't see it, a 29-year-old...
Life on the wrong side of history
On August 8, 1775, Ebenezer Punderson was a refugee on the HMS Rose, a British man-of-war.
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Rick's List - Chip & Joanna Have a New Magazine Edition
Two days ago, I got a letter from Waco, Texas. If you're me, you hate to see anything from Waco because I went to school there, at Baylor, and didn't particularly enjoy the experience. What I did like about Waco was the barbecue, but unless...
Grow up, my little veggie friends - no need to think about the harvest
OK, all my tender sproutlings, here's the deal: I provide a nice, south-facing bed of only the richest, finest topsoil from which tree roots and sharp rocks have painstakingly been removed with hoe, rake and mattock; I make sure you get plenty of...
Rick's List — Literary Revisions Edition
At lunch the other day, seated in a booth and trying to determine why iced tea tastes different in the winter than the summer, I heard boisterous greetings. I looked up and saw two middle-aged guys, apparently old friends who hadn't...
The value of listening
Before I met my wife, I wanted to learn foreign languages in order to, well, meet foreign women.
Rick's List — History of Spring Break, Part One Edition
I'm always amazed by any scholar who has the confidence and skill to write a history book. A history of anything, really, although presumably the tome should have some gravitas. While I'm sure the "The History of Laminate Shelving in Functional...
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