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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
The Quest to Live (Almost) Forever
Evanston RoundTable, April 18, 2018 The arc of life is simple and inexorable: we are born, grow up, age and die. But what if we could change that, could live
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
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,
The Electoral College is a Broken System
Evanston RoundTable, March 7, 2019 Five times in our nation’s history, including twice in the last generation, the will of the people has been subverted by a process that is
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
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
How to Survive a Plane Crash
Evanston RoundTable, Jan. 24, 2019 Almost 2 million Americans take to the skies every day. Flying is fast, efficient and safe, far safer than driving, as we are constantly assured.
‘Green Book’ movie review
Evanston RoundTable, Jan. 10, 2019 There are two ways to come at “Green Book,” the new biopic about Don Shirley, the renowned African American pianist and composer who died in