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Theo of Golden: A Review. Do you know of this impressive novel and its unusual history? How unusual? Well, it was initially self-published in 2023 and sold over 170, 000 copies before a subsidiary of Simon & Schuster took over as publisher in November, 2025. The book, now on The […]
Are politics and medicine entwined? A report published this week in JAMA Forum suggests these two fields actually have connections. Are you scratching your head? The link between the two is revealed in a few snippets from that report. Read the following: In the nearly 50 years that Gallup has queried […]
Worried about AI? I am, and for reasons that should frighten everyone. There’s no doubt that Artificial Intelligence can be remarkably useful. You’ve probably used it. I have. I tinkered with it for an earlier post to show how clever (and fast) AI is at composing a poem (see that […]
Happiest Countries on earth. Have you seen the latest list? The top four happiest locations all lie north of the USA. I’ve been lucky enough to spend time in each of those easygoing nations, and I have no quibble with the results. I smiled a lot while in each country. […]
Our Little Irritations. I think most of us sense them, those petty events that set off little twinges, those inconsequential triggers that blip on our radar and cause us to respond as predictably as Pavlov’s dog (or at least I do) when our bell rings. For me, it’s usually a […]
My Harris-Trump choice drained me. But I finally have determined which candidate I will vote AGAINST. My decision came in a flash, thanks to an unexpected epiphany that focused on factors I had not even considered earlier. An examination of those factors revealed which of these sorry candidates scares me […]
The agonizing Harris – Trump race has created a dilemma for at least half of our country’s voters, I among them. Millions of us find both candidates unfit for the job. To summarize my own view, I rate these two nominees as the least desirable pair to run for the […]
Writerken.com is restored. I learned yesterday that some readers logging on to my website were able to land on my home page but could not access any posts from there. I alerted the tech guys at KC Web Specialists, and they soon had things back in order. So, for those […]
Scientific American‘s presidential endorsement disappointed me. As a person gritting my teeth about the upcoming election, I had hopes of finding some logical and reasonable arguments in this “scientific” article. You’ve probably heard about the endorsement, or maybe you’ve even have read it. It appeared a few days ago, accompanied […]
Just a brief note to inform you of my recent interview by another blogger, Nancy Julien Kopp, a remarkably productive writer who has been in the blogging game since 2009. Since that time, Nancy had posted (amazingly!) thousands of essays on her website. She calls her site Writer Granny’s […]
