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  When Mask-Wearing Rules Faced Resistance

  May 18, 2020 · 1 min read

  This is an interesting account, on History.com, of the use of face masks during the 1918 “Spanish” Flu pandemic. To read it, click here.

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  Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

  July 4, 2023 · 4 min read

  Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow By Yuval Noah Harari 448 pages Originally published in 2015 The first book of Harari’s that I read was Sapiens. I loved it. It’s one of those books that gives pleasure on…

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  The Bridge Over the River Kwai

  June 29, 2020 · 1 min read

  First published in French in 1952, then in English translation in 1954, this is a page-turner about British POWs building a bridge for their Japanese captors in Burma in 1942. (The author – who later wrote…

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  The Monkey’s Paw of Beauty Products” in The New Yorker

  December 15, 2019 · 1 min read

  This cartoonisn’t funny. It’s not even clever. It’s correct. And that’s what’s wrong with our culture. LINK

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  Metropolitan Life

  February 12, 2020 · 1 min read

  A collection of smart and witty essays about life in the Big Apple as a young writer. Part Patti Smith. Part Sex and the City. She has this thing she does with lists…

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