Lance Armstrong notwithstanding, it is said confession is good for the soul. I attended a remarkable event last Thursday at the Crest Theatre.
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Will the outcome of the November 7 election foreordain the end of our Republic? In 2008, someone in my writers’ group dared me to do something “fantastical.”
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Last Friday morning, KXJZ, our local National Public Radio outlet, aired Episode Three of Season Two of Radiolab, where—in their words—“the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and human experience.” I was half-listening, as I’m wont to do when also working, until something grabbed me.
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