Thursday, December 08, 2011

Bill Baird, Unsung Hero

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by Edd Doerr While I gave Bill Baird a mention in my Nov 9, 2011, post I did not follow up with a longer piece. Let me remedy that by quotin...
Sunday, December 04, 2011

Rationalizing Irrational Choices: That $45 entree and presidential choices

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By Gary Berg-Cross The size of the Sunday supplement is one sign that officially holiday shopping season. Modern day products and thei...

The Insidious Librarian

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By Luis Granados The world of 80 years ago this month: Adolf Hitler remained in a deep depression over the recent death of his niece and ...
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Saturday, December 03, 2011

Callimachus - Father of Bibliography and Organizer of Library Knowledge

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By Gary Berg-Cross The other day while listening to a talk about finding things on the Web I learned about Callimachus/ Kallimachus. He ...
Friday, December 02, 2011

'Public Rejects School Vouchers'

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by Edd Doerr This letter was published in the Washington Examiner on 12/2/11. "Public overwhelmingly rejects school vouchers" ...
Thursday, December 01, 2011

Strong, Steady, and, of course, Secular!

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By Naima Cabelle Washington I believe that it was the African American poet, Sterling Brown who wrote that “the strong men keep on coming!...

'The God Virus'

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by Edd Doerr The God Virus: How Religion Infects Our Lives and Culture, by psychologist Darrel W. Ray (IPC Press, Bonner Springs, KS, 2009, ...
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'Darwin the Writer'

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by Edd Doerr Darwin the Writer, by George Levine (Oxford University Press, 2011, 244 pp) is not just another book about evolution. Rather, ...