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I’m aghast at Trump’s election victory, as are virtually all my friends, for reasons that have been listed over and over in editorials and private conversations. There’s no point in reiterating them. An email I just received from a long-time friend said, “I’m...
The cliché, you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, creates a conundrum. You go to a bookstore (no, not surfing Amazon) and pick up a book with an appealing mountain scene on the cover. It looks interesting since you are a naturalist and love to camp. You’ve never...
Last night I saw Aquarius, a Brazilian-French film about an elderly lady, Clara, who wouldn’t sell her apartment to developers, even though every other apartment in the building had been sold. There were no occupants left and the building was decaying. The developers...
Last week I went to the NIH, where I did research for over 40 years, to retrieve a bunch of my books to bring home. I put them in a duffle bag, which turned out to be very heavy, and dragged the bag down from the ninth floor of building 10, the hospital. I put the...
