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Stuck? Try the world’s oldest solvent.

Posted on 2012/09/08 by

In most professions, most of the time,the job goes as smoothly as driving a bus. Take medicine, for example. Patient presents with a problem; doctor performs standard diagnosis and consults that big reference book that years of training and experience … Continue reading →

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Dead People I Would Invite for Dinner

Posted on 2012/01/11 by

History is replete with boors. Consider, for example, Alexander the (so-called) Great, Oliver Cromwell and Mao Zedong. Sit down with one of those and you’d get such an earful self-aggrandizement (Alex), theology (Oliver) or ideology (Mao) that you’d be comatose … Continue reading →

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