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Treasures from the Bodleian in New York
The brainiest room in the world
Marks of Genius: Treasures from the Bodleian Library encloses as much of the human mind and spirit as a single room can contain. Maybe even more than a computer.
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Remembering Joan Rivers (three)
The person and the persona
Joan Rivers had to continually perfect her face because that face had become the mask of comedy itself.
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Remembering Joan Rivers (two)
Fashioning a persona
The fact that Joan Rivers never reduced herself to buffoon persona is what I admire most. She gave female comedians permission to be lovely and funny.
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Remembering Joan Rivers (one)
What we love to hate about Joan Rivers
There is a certain poetic justice to her death at the hands of a surgeon, under anesthesia, knowing no pain or the true indignities of old age. And how can we not love her for that?
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Seniors and technology: a second look
Why Gramps should use an iPad
Tom Purdom says to stop bothering him about smartphones and social media: He doesn't need them. But how well can we anticipate what we really want?
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Seniors and technology
Why Gramps isn't using an iPad
Technological age gaps reflect differences in circumstances, not temperament.
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Another response to the ALS ice bucket challenge
A bucket of sour grapes
Some people will give and remember it as an experience for a lifetime; some will wait for the next celebrity cause to enjoy. But if they open their hearts with their wallets, even for one evening, a good deed is done.
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Throwing cold water on the ice bucket challenge
Why does it take stupid stunts to get Americans to care about certain issues?
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Facing the void, with insurance
What if Albert Camus wrote commercials for Colonial Penn Life Insurance?
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Remembering Robin Williams (nine)
A verbal Picasso
Like some stand-up comedian character created by James Joyce, Robin Williams let fly his imagination, and one could only stare in wonder at the sheer inventive joy of it.
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