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Has A Witch Spirit Taken Over Your Soul?
The issue, then, is whether a witch person, or witch host would always know he or she had a witch spirit. The Mende disagree on this point, and so do the anthropologists. Some say that when a witch enters a village, it is like a powerful sound in a room filled with tuning forks. Or…
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Justice Holmes Teaches The First Amendment
Originally published in The Wall Street Journal. The more certain you are, the more you should resist the temptation to silence those who disagree. If you are absolutely certain that President Trump is or is not an idiot, that climate change is or is not the most pressing problem of our age, that abortion is…
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The Writer’s Guide To Bread Baking
How writers and 6-year-olds can bake better bread than you buy in most grocery stores and bakeries.
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It’s a mystery . . .
I have a short story, Sycamore Acres, in the July/August 2021 issue of Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine.
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Bush Pigs: A Tale of Reverse Culture Shock
Published in the The New Yorker magazine, Richard Dooling’s Bush Pigs is a harrowing tale of reverse culture shock and a cult favorite among expats who wander abroad and are sometimes unprepared for the trauma of returning to the first world. After three years in the bush, a Peace Corps Volunteer is evacuated from war-torn…
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Why Books Aren’t Dead Yet
I spent my undergrad years painting dorm rooms to pay my tuition and never once allowed schooling to get in the way of my education. I graduated from St. Louis University in 1976 and decided it was time to actually read all of the books that I never had time to read while I was…
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Lego Antikythera Mechanism
The Antikythera Mechanism is the oldest known scientific computer, built in Greece at around 100 BCE. Lost for 2000 years, it was recovered from a shipwreck in 1901. But not
Blue Streak: Swearing, Free Speech & Sexual Harassment
The Wall Street Journal invited Richard Dooling to write its Millennial Essay on Swearing, One Thousand Years of Searing: From Swearing By To Swearing At. Writing in the New York
Critical Care: Revisited
The Meaning Of Life Is That It Stops The new IT article on health care: How American Health Care Killed My Father, by David Goldhill, writing in the September 2009
Writer Uninterrupted
Most powerful people are on the manager’s schedule. It’s the schedule of command. But there’s another way of using time that’s common among people who make things, like programmers and writers. They generally prefer to use time in units of half a day at least. You can’t write or program well in units of an hour. That’s barely enough time to get started.
If Microsoft’s EULA Applied To Books
For instance if you grow older and more mature, develop a mental illness, change your diet, or receive any artificial limbs or joints, pacemakers, implants, or organ transplants, then you may need to reactivate your license before you will be allowed to reaccess the book.
Rapture For The Geeks
Survival Of The Smartest: Will Geeks Inherit The Earth? Purchase From Amazon. Media Coverage of Rapture For The Geeks: Sunday New York Times Op-Ed, “The Rise of the Machines,” by