The Village Morning Open Thread
I’m too cold to write anything this week. And the worst is not even here yet. It’s supposed to get down to -17 ° F. Monday morning. That’s not wind chill; that’s the thermometer reading. I remember a...
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xI’m safe on Mars. Perseverance will get you anywhere.#CountdownToMars— NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover (@NASAPersevere) February 18, 2021I’ve been thinking about janesaunt’s comment about enjoying tv...
View ArticleElla P. Stewart, Pharmaceutical chemist
This daughter of sharecroppers became the first Black woman to graduate from the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy and the first Black woman licensed to practice pharmacy in the U.S..She went...
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Envy is a pretty base emotion. By some it is even considered a deadly sin. Completely untethered to any objective injustice, the green-eyed monster is a primitive response that rears its ugly head any...
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If you’ve lived your whole life in the midwest you can get a little blase about tornado watches. I’m even relatively nonchalant when the watch switches to a warning. I may have the tv on and be paying...
View ArticleA villain you probably haven't heard of
When Josh Hawley, who had never held elected office, decided to run for Missouri Attorney General he turned to Timmy Teeppell, a shadowy figure from Louisiana. Teeppell is a political consultant with...
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x.@aaja has just released a video pronunciation guide for the names of 6 victims in the #Atlanta shooting. for all those reporting, and to share with your teams...https://t.co/CF2RYc3blN— amna...
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The church I attended (before covid) does not believe in a literal resurrection, but rather views the New Testament Easter story symbolically.CRUCIFIXION: Any situation or circumstance that eradicated...
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My brain was empty this week. So if I was going to phone it in, I thought, what about — cranes? There is something very soothing about them.Crane season is almost over, but it looks like birds are...
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Is anybody watching the PBS miniseries Atlantic Crossing? The third installment of the eight part series airs tomorrow night on my local PBS station.I have been a fan of Sophia Helin since seeing her...
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When a social media site has a suggestion for me, my usual reaction isBut for some reason when Twitter proposed to tickle my funny bone the other day, I bit and some of the offerings were actually...
View ArticleBordalo II Recycled Street Art
I saw this feature story on BBC World’s Travel Show this week and I thought it was a pretty cool subject for the Saturday morning Village diary. When I searched for an appropriate image to use with the...
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People make fun of me for hanging on to an old collection of movies on videotape, but I don’t care. They came in handy this week when there was some kind of Google Fiber outage and I was without either...
View ArticleVillage Saturday Morning This and That
I don’t have many thoughts this week. I’m extremely excited over the fact that I finally worked up the nerve to take my bicycle in for new tires. I haven’t been on it for two years. I didn’t know if I...
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I came across this tweet last week. The name Violette Szabo seemed vaguely familiar, but I couldn’t have said who she was. The rest of these incredible stories of bravery and sacrifice were completely...
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xthe best barking sensor you can get pic.twitter.com/Lyz8uyW0nY— Humor And Animals (@humorandanimals) May 19, 2021xi love you, son !(jukin media) pic.twitter.com/ILrTrE2S7V— Humor And Animals...
View ArticleMy first job was working in a data mine
Who doesn’t love parlor games? BFSkinner/CameronProf is the master. WYgal’s Saturday Night jukeboxes are great fun.Even on Twitter they’re hard to resist.Tell me something that reminds you of your...
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I can’t believe it’s the end of another week. I feel like I’m hurtling toward something.Time is moving faster than my ability to process it. I’ve got nothing but cute animals this week.xThis cat woulda...
View ArticleMurder Down Under
I don’t read improving literature. I’m past the point where any improvement is possible. Instead I am a gluttonous consumer of murder mysteries. I’ve read so many I can’t even remember all the authors...
View ArticleBeaj Iskis
I got the impression last week that there are a lot people here who like police procedurals. So you might like what I am currently reading — the Commissaire Dupin series by Jean-Luc Bannalec.Georges...
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xAlbert had the best morning, running free in his lovely, green, rolling Scottish Hills 🏞 Dad had the worst morning being hounded by bloody deer/horse flies every 7000 steps of the walk 🦟🦟🦟Give me...
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I may have let myself in for something horrible next week. A woman I knew in high school contacted me a few days ago. One of the women I rode to school with over 50 years ago, who is now blind, called...
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So I went. Opened my heart and mind, ramped up my compassion and empathy for a foray into Jesusland. It was the right thing to do. It was good karma. But it put me way outside my comfort zone. I’m...
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If you’re not familiar with Dr. Uri on YouTube, let me introduce you. His videos are both informative and delightful. In the one below I was fascinated to learn about cats who want their owners to...
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I’ve been racking my brain for a couple of weeks trying to rediscover a weird video I saw a few years back that featured a brass band wearing Zippy the Pinhead style moo-moos, gliding around and...
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I’ve noticed a lot of fear mongering on Twitter lately (must be the second favorite pastime after dissing food or bragging about food) about the lambda variant, claiming that vaccines are powerless...
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Well , hooray, Kansas City finally made it to 40% fully vaccinated.xYouTube VideoOf course, the case rate for the last recorded week (314/100,000) is right up there with the peak rates from last...
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I’ve been reading Folly Du Jour by Barbara Cleverly. It is set in Paris in the 1920s. The opening scene features a character going to see Josephine Baker in La Revue Nègre. I didn’t know much about her...
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Almost exactly 14 years ago my cousin called me and asked me if I could provide a home for a kitten. She and her grandson had been out walking when they spotted the little guy staggering around in the...
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In psychology, theory of mind is a social-cognitive skill that allows the subject to understand other people and their behavior by attributing mental states to them. Theory of mind allows people to...
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Imagine being a visitor in another country when that country suffered a horrendous terrorist attack. That was the experience of the Llanelli Male Voice Choir on the morning of September 11, 2001.The...
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xFacebook ContentIf you follow the link above you will have to do a search on “Guadalupe Center” or “Gran Fiesta” to access the photos.Established in 1919, the Guadalupe Center (Centers today) is the...
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The UK's Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) is to release new guidance to ensure ads don't mislead people about the environment.The regulator will be launching inquiries to analyse environmental...
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I like this website a lot:The Logic of ScienceThe author is a post-doctoral researcher in Australia who writes under the pseudonym of Fallacy Man.Mission statementTeach critical thinking.Explain how...
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This post below caught my attention because of a story my dad told about his army experience. He transferred from the infantry (He fought in North Africa and Italy) to the JAG Corps at the end of WWII....
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Effective May 3, 2023, everyone will need to show a REAL ID or other acceptable form of ID to board a domestic flight.My driver’s license expires in December and I just got a card from the Missouri...
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Just some architectural eye candy today. The article below caught my eye because it was accompanied by a picture of this awesome building:xThe Hikma Religious and Secular Complex in Dandaji, Niger,...
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Monday, November 1, is the 100th anniversary of the dedication of the Liberty Memorial, now the National World War I Museum and Memorial.xFacebook ContentxYouTube VideoSoon after the end of World War...
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Another documentary about Nazis. Does it really have anything new to teach us or is it just appealing to morbid curiosity.Well, this one is very good. It was released in 2000 so not new. I discovered...
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The Thames river has come a long way since the days of The Great Stink. In the summer of 1858 the combination of untreated human waste, industrial effluent, and an inadequate sewer system raised a...
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Fannie Lou Hamer’s America is a new and original documentary film told through the public speeches, personal interviews, and powerful songs of the fearless Mississippi...
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The thing I hate the most about old age is not the aches and pains and decrepitude, it’s thinking you know how something works and then finding out it doesn’t work that way anymore.Take prescription...
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This study is not yet peer reviewed but looks hopefulxIn a cohort of > 200 healthy people who got 2 doses of mRNA vaccines, 25% were poor responders for neutralizing antibodies (nAbs), but had an...
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A few weeks ago I shared some photographs from “Fannie Lou Hamer’s America” facebook page just because I love beautiful vintage photos. I just assumed everybody knew who she was. I got the impression,...
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My cousin and I decided to travel on the day the Midwest was swept with hurricane force winds, dust storms, tornadoes, wildfires, snow squalls, and record breaking heat. Hey, on the ten day forecast it...
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This is a fascinating data visualization site. I could play with these interactive graphs all day. Tip: You have to stop the animation to see the graphs below. Some counterintuitive facts: As of...
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When Julius Caesar reformed the calendar in 45 B.C.E., he made January (named in honor of Janus the two faced god of doors and gates) the first month of the year. This coincided with the consular year,...
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xThrough his groundbreaking roles and singular talent, Sidney Poitier epitomized dignity and grace, revealing the power of movies to bring us closer together. He also opened doors for a generation of...
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I really hate explaining jokes. My cousin Ozzie* doesn’t get jokes. He is also prone to leaving non sequitur comments on my timeline along with requests to explain jokes. I never know how to reply....
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KU Med Center has had it with covidiots, so they invited Channel 4 News to take a tour of their morgue. They are not playing.xYouTube VideoWyandotte County, Kansas, where the hospital is located has a...
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