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Monthly Archives: June 2020
This Is Your Brain on Sports: The Science of Underdogs, the Value of Rivalry, and What We Can Learn from the T-Shirt Cannon
Here are some highlights from this book: * We like our signal-callers handsome. The quarterback may not have existed before Camp and his contemporaries descended upon the Massasoit House 135 years ago, but his brainchild has since evolved into the … Continue reading
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Defenders of the Race: Jewish Doctors and Race Science in Fin-de-Siècle Europe
Here are some highlights from this 1994 book: * In Germany, for example, Jews went from being called and calling themselves Jews in the eighteenth century, to Israelites in the nineteenth, to German Citizens of the Mosaic Faith into the … Continue reading
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Hot New Comic Pete Drysdale
When the covid-19 pandemic hit, I wondered how it would affect Westfield Shopping malls which I thought were operated by the Lowy family. Turns out they sold out last year. From the Australian Financial Review March 1, 2020: Another Australian-American … Continue reading
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Compulsive Viewing: The Inside Story Of Packer’s Nine Network
Here are some highlights from this 2000 book by Gerald Stone about Australia’s leading TV network of the time: * What does it take to become a television star? Performers may look like they are speaking directly to you — … Continue reading
DM: ‘Violent thug’ with a face tattoo of an angel holding a machine gun is arrested after ‘killing his lover when he refused to delete explicit pictures’
Daily Mail article. Comments at Steve Sailer: * Long story short: Our friend, who had recently been released from prison, having completed his sentence, was having a sexual friendship with the victim, who had posted sexually explicit photographs online–as one … Continue reading
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