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We’re having a heat wave …
Here are the grim details about the weather the next few days. Hot, hotter and hottest. Explains The Associated Press: Much of the United States is trapped under a heat “dome” caused by a huge area...
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Farewell, Mr. Bradbury
Ray Bradbury, who died Tuesday at 91, got me started reading science fiction. It is because of Bradbury that I found my way to Frank Herbert, Stephen King (who deals mainly in horror, but also science...
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What not to read
The late, great impressionist David Frye had a bit in which the actor George C. Scott gives then-President Nixon a phone call. Nixon reportedly had ordered bombing raids over Cambodia after seeing the...
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Tale of two documentaries
Two documentary films on weather, pollution and climate have received distinctly different reactions from the public: In China, “a documentary on air pollution garner(ed) more than 100 million views...
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Trigger warning!
Almost 40 years ago, I started reading a novel for which I should have been given a trigger warning, but wasn’t. Upon encountering the trigger — the first name of a woman for whom I was carrying an...
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Fear it
I did not know about this: Nor is a cyber-attack on the power grid just a fantasy. In fact, in Ukraine (which I fear is a laboratory for new warfare techniques the way Spain was in the 1930s), it’s...
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