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Late April 2023 Grab Bag o’ Humour

Posted on 22 April 2023 by Larry Russwurm

Few things are as opaque to see as the day of the week that Jesus died and the day he rose again from the dead. I was brought up in a Lutheran church and heard that Good Friday was the … Continue reading →

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Jokes of Billionaires

Posted on 22 February 2020 by Larry Russwurm

Let’s start locally with this one. Mike Lazaridis of Blackberry fame is still a billionaire. He started and named the Perimeter Institute which is the premiere physics institute in Canada. He used the name Perimeter because he expected that the … Continue reading →

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The Exaggerated 21st Century

Posted on 15 July 2019 by Larry Russwurm

Are we so insecure of our accomplishments in the 21st century that we must embellish the truth? Because we didn’t live up to the Back to the Future series hype, a few years ago, we began calling a wheeled board … Continue reading →

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SETI: Dumb Isn’t Dumb

Posted on 22 July 2017 by Larry Russwurm

SETI is of course the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligences. Now I have no problem with listening for interstellar messages. That actually seems prudent and quite bright. But earthlings should only listen and never speak. That is, we should never … Continue reading →

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