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Ok. No working with table saws while naked. Got it!

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I don't want any accidents amongst treasured readers. I'm guessing the blades cause more e-visits than the EMF. Safety First!!! Thanks for reading!

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One of my favorite things is knowing that the poles switch every few hundred thousand years or so, and experts can tell when by looking at the direction of iron filings in soil sediment. So cool!

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I am FASCINATED by the ingenious experiments people think of! I hope we aren't due for a switch any time soon! I recently read a book titled The Death of Expertise. It is about the strong and rising tendency of very educated people to reject expertise. It seems when expertise clashes with your worldview our brains side with anxiety and anger...

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Oct 1, 2022Liked by Mark Dolan

I liked learning a $5 word for lying from today’s post. I hope to find the occasion to use it.

I’m not going to forward your email to anyone at this point. I’ve been unwilling these days to send my friends any emails not on topic of something we are already discussing. Many are complaining about email overload particularly from political campaigns or retailers. So I won’t add to the overflowing of their inbox.

My schedule the last couple weeks has also been overflowing with what I had to do and what I wanted to do so I haven’t had time to respond to your columns. My recent reading favorite, however, was Immigration Fraud. I really appreciated listening to President Reagan on the subject. That speech of his is something I’d really like to share when election season is over and folks may actually pay attention to unsolicited email from me. Thanks.

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Oct 1, 2022·edited Oct 1, 2022Author

Alta --

I get great joy in the quiet of the morning these days. It is fun to interact with people who share reading. That is what is great about this pasttime. I do not expect a lot of people to forward but taking the time to respond is wonderful. President Reagan encapsulated the promise of the country and the experience of being President with that speech. He wasn't loading up momentos from the White House ala Clinton and Trump. Have a wonderful day.

Immigration Fraud was fun to write and encapsulates my experience with how my family came to be here. Like life, it is not black and white but a little bit messy.

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Oct 1, 2022·edited Oct 1, 2022Author

It is more a physics thing. All electricity, as it flows, imparts a magnetic field around it. So all electricity begets an electromagnetic field, including the cord to your vacuum :) -- no need to share it is merely a request.

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