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The Care and Feeding of Prince George
Josie Glausiusz is on hiatus and will return next week. This week, we return to one of her previous On Science essays.
Watching Kate and William emerge from St. Mary’s Hospital in London on July 23, 2013, with their little princeling, I couldn’t help feeling moved. The young Duke and Duchess of Cambridge …
Read MoreCare and Feeding of Prince George
Watching Kate and William emerge from St. Mary’s Hospital in London on July 23 with their little princeling, I couldn’t help feeling moved. The young Duke and Duchess of Cambridge looked happy, describing themselves, in Kate’s words, as “very emotional … any parent probably sort of knows what this feeling feels like.” Their …
Read MoreWords, Words, Words
… See It Now, the CBS broadcaster parroted Senator Joseph McCarthy, who had quoted Caesar at one of his infamous hearings: “On what meat doth this our Caesar feed?” Murrow then added what he considered to be a “not altogether inappropriate” rejoinder, which appears just three lines earlier in the play: “The fault, dear Brutus, is …
Read MoreYour Perspective or Mine?
… NOW only illustrates what one commentator, Renée DiResta, has aptly termed “bespoke realities”—diverse viewpoints continually being reaffirmed by algorithms and scripts that recognize our preferences and feed us what we want to see and hear. Most people, I suspect, believe their own take on reality matters more and, of course, is more true than …
Read More‘In the Presence of People No Longer Here’
… the eyes of God.” Socha and two friends worked for the sewer system and could direct the fugitives where to go. He knew that an underground pipe feeding the Neptune fountain had a leak; that supplied the group’s drinking water. Through manholes, Socha lowered meager supplies of onions, beans, and other food (often stolen …
Read MoreBack to Bellevue
… There was a strict limit on the number of visitors allowed in my mother’s room at any one time. Constant finger pricking for blood tests. A feeding tube shoved up her nose. An IV needle jammed into the back of her hand. My mother was mostly unconscious, but whenever a nurse or aide started …
Read MoreThe Barber of Erice
… people of Erice would never hold him to account. The priest spoke to their better selves, the ones who would always welcome the stranger, shelter the homeless, feed the starving, visit the dying, the ones who would ascend, flawless, to heaven. But a barber could only tend to their vanity, the person they had to …
Read MoreAcid Blues (Slight Return)
… those desperate for his Super Bowl–caliber talent.
Back at Woodstock, many more notes whang and toggle, feeding back hard through 100-watt Marshall amplifiers and the rickety towers of speakers flanking the stage. Hendrix is making the white Fender speak with a vengeance, playing instead of singing the lyrics. He warps “the rockets …
The Snow Maiden
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You First
… day. The ones that require strategic planning are all the others. Including how to get a good night’s sleep.
I couldn’t help with the night feedings, but I do have half an hour in the morning between my own dog walk and my run, so why not use it walking her dog? I …