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Hocus POTUS: Tossing My Hat Into the Ring
Evanston RoundTable, May 30, 2019 Not wishing to be the last American to enter the field, I hereby announce my candidacy for President of the United States. You ask, what
When Every Day Could Be Your Last
Evanston RoundTable, May 16, 2019 Is it a good thing not to know the moment you’re going to die? Of course, some people do: patients in the final stages of
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