November 2011
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United States Congress Calendar
11/17: Is pizza a vegetable?
11/18: Are squids ticklish?
11/19: How cool are magnets?
11/20: Who would win in a fight, Destiny’s Child or TLC?
11/21: Does anybody actually donate to Wikipedia?
11/22: Are foxes faster than dogs?
11/23: Wouldn’t it be neat if we all had go-karts instead of desks?
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“Health is not a commodity. Risk factors are not disease. Aging is not an...”
– David Loxtercamp, author of A Measure of Days: The Journal of a Country Doctor, as read in his interview with NPR’s Liane Hansen.
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The desire for quantity in an archive or collection suggests an inherent link between loss and accumulation. In the aftermath of loss, both personal and cultural, we gather up the objects and traces left behind, compile and examine them as though these material things can tell us something about what has happened to us. Perhaps this impulse is a way of taking inventory of our loss, measuring,...
