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Recently a friend related a tragic story to me: an acquaintance had been struck dead while in the act of teaching in Africa. "What does that mean?" she asked me, I suppose rhetorically. To a steely materialist like myself, one answer is that this event has no meaning. As human animals, we are so skilled at ...
This is hardly exclusively the domain of males, but on occasions when I have been forced to enumerate my interests, "music" has never failed to breach the top two or three. So let me tell you about my favorite band. "Band," of course, is a peculiar way to describe The Mountain Goats. For all practical purposes, the ...
It's pet week here at the Storque! Keep tabs on the Etsy Pets featured column for all the cute pet stuff you can handle. Pets, ahoy! With all possible deference to the great Mr. Attenborough, I contend that nature documentary of the present day is disproportionately fixated on megafauna. What wonder and drama ...
Yes! It's another bike-related Etsy Find! But this Earth Day, if you will permit me I would like to be serious for a moment. Every Tuesday morning in my neighborhood (Alphabet City, in Manhattan), a few dozen of my neighbors ritually wake up early, get in their cars, relocate them ten feet to the right, and sit there ...
For years I have treated guitars and evolutionary biology as non-overlapping magisteria in my life. No longer! Behold — the Darwin tie strap! I'm a bit skeptical that the pick holder feature can withstand my sustained level of rockness — so it may not replace "tape and the mike stand" as my emergency pick ...
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