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Spring to Attention!

Evanston RoundTable, May 2, 2019 While T.S. Eliot’s assertion that “April is the cruelest month” might be true in the Chicago area, May is quite another story, the genuine advent

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A Library Story

Evanston RoundTable, April 4, 2019 Reflecting on it later, he decided it was wonderful happenstance, “pocketing the key of knowledge” in that way. It had happened, as many wonderful things

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The Second Worst Sin

Evanston RoundTable, March 21, 2019 It would be interesting to hold a contest for the “next worst” sin. Surely, despite its curiously low ranking in the Ten Commandments (number six,

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Zeno’s Plank

Evanston RoundTable, Feb. 21, 2019 When I exercise doing planks, I pick out 60 seconds on the clock and start counting to myself. When I pass five seconds, I note

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Attention Must Be Paid

Evanston RoundTable, Feb. 7, 2019 There’s a famous video on YouTube—blandly titled “Selective Attention Test”—of six college students passing basketballs to each other. Viewers are instructed to count the number

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