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Monthly Archives: January 2016

The moon out my window, 7:11 a.m.

Wednesday, January 6, 2016
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The (distant) future of eggs

Tuesday, January 5, 2016

Home-laid abbey eggs It has been nice to see a number of stories in the past month about major restaurant chains switching to cage-free eggs. But it’s a slow process. There’s an awful lot of industrial chicken infrastructure that has to be changed. And even hens that aren’t in cages are not exactly living in […]

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Blue-filtering eyeglasses

Monday, January 4, 2016

My eye doctor urged me to wear blue-filtering glasses while I’m in front of a computer screen or an iPad screen. Though I love the Retina display on my new 27-inch iMac, the screen does seem to be — at least subjectively — more intensely blue than the screen on my old iMac. So I’ve […]

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The ability (and inability) to judge character

Friday, January 1, 2016

You would think that after hundreds of thousands of years of evolution as social beings, we humans would be pretty good at judging the character and intentions of other humans. The sociobiologist E.O. Wilson has written, for example, that we humans constantly study other humans and that this explains our insatiable demand for stories, or […]

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