
“EXPERIENCE IS A GOOD SCHOOL. BUT THE FEES ARE HIGH”
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Heinrich Heine said that when fees to attend Harvard in the mid-1800s were $250 and not the $48,000 they are today. He didn’t mean that kind of school, of course, though in America…

Weekend Reading Doesn’t Mean Weakened Reading
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Today’s blog is to brain food what eggs benedict is to weekends: great-tasting, highly socializing and not great for your arteries. But hey, try these tidbits and see how they fill…

RamsayWrites – Weekends Weren’t Always Weekends
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Until the late 1800s, people worked six days a week, with Sunday their day of rest -- and in many places, church.
The idea of a weekend as two very different days “in which we…

Omnium-Gatherum – Oh Gee!
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I used to write these Omnium-Gatherum (OG) blog posts every month, with 8 to 10 brief items to lead you down the rabbit hole. Now, they’ll land every week, a mark of how much strange…