I have been listening to a series of neuroscience telecasts each week and find them informative and pleasing. Had I endless cash I would invest in a scan of the brain during the churning out of lists supplied during present wave of civic boosterism.

It may be time to look up the Expo era and trawl newspaper archives to see whether language was employed as blindly then as it is currently.

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The Rereading the Riot Act project is coming along very well. Inspired conversations and exchange with my generous and thoughtful collaborators. Quelle treat.

This week I was fortunate to acquire a copy of a book from the Sound Heritage series on labour history.  Soon I will return to the boxy stacks of rare books at UBC and recommence the trawl — which is ever a delight. I could grow old happily at that table.