Day 413: Harsh Measures

originally published February 16, 2013 If this massive project accomplishes nothing else (and with any luck, it won’t), I hope to expand the working vocabulary of myself and those around me. I want some new level of understanding, an appreciation for as wide a swath of the available lexicon as we all can muster. And […]

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Day 405: Mary Toft, The Woman Who Pulled A Rabbit Out Of… Well, It Wasn’t Her Hat

originally published February 8, 2013 If you ever have doubts about the incredible growth of the medical profession over the last 300 years, remember the story of Mary Toft. Mary was a British peasant woman from Godalming, Surrey. She had three kids, a journeyman clothier husband named Joshua, and not a lot of money. When […]

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Day 296: The World, Coast To Coast

originally published October 22, 2012 I promised my wife I could make an article about geology interesting. In my defense, I’d downed two delicious pints of Alleykat’s Chili-Pepper lager, and where some men get beer muscles I tend to get a beer writing ability. Plate tectonics? Hell yeah! This shit’ll be riveting! Now that the […]

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Day 253: Carnett’s Sign, And Other Ways I’ll Predict My Own Demise

originally published September 9, 2012 Today’s article is a public service, written at great sacrifice by the author. I’m no hypochondriac, and I’ve been fortunate enough to have avoided any particularly serious medical concerns in my lifetime. But reading about stuff like this makes me cringe a little with sympathy aches. Writing about it is […]

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Day 231: Henry Thomas Lights Up

originally published August 18, 2012 If you have a weak stomach, you might not want to read today’s article. Maybe flip back a day and read about the wild wackiness of the Golden Girls. This is going to get ugly. Much like alien abductions, unexplained tales of the paranormal, and the wide appeal of Tyler […]

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