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-Benjamin Franklin
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Thoughts on Invertebrate Houseguests
Just last night, my wife asked me to identify a spider that was perched on the wall of our shower. A small thing, its body was only about 3 millimeters long, or about 1/10 an inch. It was an immature spider… Read more
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Vaccination by the Pyramid
The term “population pyramid” goes back to a time when plotting populations by age really did produce a triangle, with a large base of young people and each older age cohort narrowing, until there were very few at the top. As diseases became more controlled, and birth control entered the picture, the population pyramids changed Read more
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Lincoln County Board of Health Informative Meeting- Part 2
The County Board of Health met Wednesday, December 16th for an informative meeting. It wasn’t just an informative meeting though- it contained a proposal (one which the board anticipates discussing at the next meeting). The proposal (by Jim Seifert of Troy), while at the end of the meeting, was sufficiently surprising that we included it Read more
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Bismarck’s Belief
“There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.” Otto von Bismarck, 1907 Three fourths of my neighbors voted for Trump, and I figure even more believe that Biden won through some form of chicanery. As I look at media comments, I see fears of what will happen – Read more
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Lincoln County Board of Health Informative Meeting was Held Wednesday 12/16
Did a member of the Board of Health actually propose a “grading system” for local businesses, based on compliance? Where does the County Board of Health come from? What powers does it have? Read more
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Why call a doctor, “Doctor”
If you look up Merriam-Webster online, you find “The word doctor comes from the Latin word for “teacher,” itself from docēre, meaning “to teach.” Using that definition, it isn’t much of a logic stretch to figure that Jill Biden’s Ed.D. earned the title “Doctor” – her dissertation is on student retention, she has been a Read more
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