This and That

Inspiration
Two anonymous inspirational quotations, one found by Rae, the other by me:
“It takes no time to learn something with the head, it can take a lifetime to get it to the heart.”
“Sometimes your heart needs more time to accept what your mind already knows.”
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Spring which way?
Not just your clocks: “A reminder, before you go to bed tonight set your clocks back one year.” ― former CBS executive.
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Passover Humor
Check out the Passover offering of my regular humor contributor Marjorie Gottlieb Wolfe: Topics for discussion at the Passover Seder table
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Whaling Song Memes
The news of a burst of Whaling Songs on TikTok may have crossed your eye. I admit it; I love the New Christy Minstrels’ Deep Blue Sea because I used it as a stereo test (lots of left speaker/right speaker). But that’s the extent of my interest. So, imagine my surprise when I was listening back nearly a half-century to the National Lampoon Radio Hour to discover that they performed a skit about a low-rent promoter with a group that sings whaling songs. Talk about prescient!
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What Darwin Really Meant
Dr. James Doty: “Charles Darwin… more accurately believed in ‘survival of the kindest,’ not survival of the fittest.” Yet again, a boiled-down description of complicated scientific work has not only failed us, but lead us as a world and society into false and negative beliefs.
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Great Amazon Doc: I Am
Thank you Barry Schneider. I Am is an amazing documentary and voyage of discovery; I learned something new about twice a minute for the whole length of this witty and well-produced video document. Thanks to Dr. Doty, I knew the heart sends more information out than it takes in, but did not know that it emits a strong electro-magnetic field that can affect people near you, even if you aren’t touching them. If you’re happy, it makes them happy. Watch this first!