Monday, May 1, 2017

Some Things from the Vicar's Bookshelf

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For those new to The Coracle , I don't read just about theology and related ministerial subjects.  Hence, these occasional suggestions a...

Further Unpopular Thoughts

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I know a lot of people who are very upset about the recent election, which is no surprise given that I live in a politically blue state and ...

Considering the Source, Ironic Advice for College Age Men

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...Joe Biden, who is out and about talking to guys the way guys talk to guys or so Joe Biden seems to think is the way guys talk to guys. ...
Sunday, April 30, 2017

Worth Reading

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Renewal and Liberal Education

On This Day 42 Years Ago...

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... I learned I wasn't going to be shipped to southeast Asia.

Historically, That's How It Happens

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Will Fascism Come to America through Its Colleges and Universities? For some history, consider the highly readable  At the Existentialist ...

I'm Glad I Went to Princeton

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Yale Grad Students Go on ‘Symbolic’ Hunger Strike Where They’re Allowed to Eat
Saturday, April 29, 2017

Archaeological News [Photo at the Link]

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Archaeologists find what may be the oldest depiction of the Virgin Mary The Dura-Europos excavation site in Syria is still threatened by w...

"Settled" Science Once Told Us That Such Waves Didn't Exist

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Quantum experiments probe underlying physics of rogue ocean waves

Early in My Career I Lost a Parishioner to Postpartum Hemorrhaging; Anything That Addresses This is Welcome

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Inexpensive Drug Prevents Deaths in New Mothers, Study Finds

Wow, This is a Remarkable Advance

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Mud DNA means we can detect ancient humans even without fossils

I've Returned to Real Books Myself as They Don't Require Generated Power to Operate

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'Screen fatigue' sees ebook sales plunge 17% as readers return to print “There is generally a sense that people are now getting sc...

Archaeological News

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But the dig site turned out to be even more revelatory—and now, with a paper in the journal Nature—controversial. See, this site wasn’t jus...
Friday, April 28, 2017

My Parents Were Staunch Democrats

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My grandfather was a union shop steward who was devoted to FDR, my Dad the treasurer of the county's Democratic Party, my mother the Dem...

Yes, But First They Must Be Destroyed

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Can the Liberal Arts Be Saved? Actually, they've already been all-but-destroyed after the gradual take-over of the disciplines by ne...

Yep

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It is a searing indictment of our educational systems that people think "freedom of speech" is synonymous with "freedom fro...

An Interesting Crime Stastistic

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MURDERS IN US VERY CONCENTRATED: 54% OF US COUNTIES IN 2014 HAD ZERO MURDERS, 2% OF COUNTIES HAVE 51% OF THE MURDERS

It Would Be Even More "Awesome" If People Wouldn't Overuse the Term "Awesome"

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Actually, Life Is Pretty Awesome Even Andrew Carnegie, one of the richest men of his time, could not prevent his mother-in-law from dying ...
Thursday, April 27, 2017

A Way With Words, Certainly

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"I got a jump ball, a be ball, a whipsy-dipsy-do, and a hurry-up ball. My be ball is a be ball 'cause it 'be' right were ...

Everything You Know is Wrong

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Popular belief that saturated fat clogs up arteries is a myth, experts say