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Face masks, or calling a bluff
Cognitive dissonance provides a good reason for not wearing a face mask against Covid-19. If you want to believe you won’t get ill, then you…
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My future bonsai: Step four
Years from now, this will be a beautiful bonsai. The leaves, although tiny, reveal the distinctive fan shape of a Ginkgo biloba, sometimes called a…
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Ideal readers and ideal characters
Sometimes writers are asked to imagine their ideal reader and to write for that person. My ideal reader is smarter than I am — so…
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Three quotes about the purpose of fiction by Ursula K. Le Guin
What can stories teach us? Here are three quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018). “We read books to find out who we are. What…
Semiosis 