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The Best Cribbage Song You Never Heard Of
I was looking for fun cribbage facts the past few days and while I couldn’t find any good cribbage jokes, I did find an interesting song about cribbage called “One for His Nob (The Cribbage Song.” It was done by a British artist, Richard Thompson. It’s included with another song by him entitled “Meet on…
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Juggling Concentration Meditation
I haven’t done a juggling YouTube video in a while, and lucky you I made one. When the daily news gripes me or gets me down, juggling forces me to concentrate on just that—juggling. If I break my concentration for any reason, I literally drop the ball. I’m limited a little in our new house…
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What is Foreign Language Syndrome?
I found a very interesting news outlet report about a condition called Foreign Language Syndrome (FLS) which you have to distinguish from Foreign Accent Syndrome (FAS). I wrote a post about that a few years ago. The latter is common by comparison with FLS. FAS is a tendency to speak with a foreign inflection, not…
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Stead Family Children’s Hospital NICU Gets a Wave from the AAP with New Designation
The University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital Neonatal Intensive Care Unit was recently recognized by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) as one of only two such units in the U.S. having the highest levels of neonatal care. It reminds me of the Iowa Hawkeye football games where, at the end of the first…
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The 2024 Distinguished Education Lecture by Russell Ledet, MD, PhD
Last year, I wanted to present this Distinguished Education Lecture by Dr. Russell Ledet, MD, PhD, given during Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration of Human Rights week. It took a while for my message to the University of Iowa to get through channels, but I want to thank Audra M. King, the Administrative Services Coordinator for…
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The Red Green Show “Twinning” Episode A Model of Cooperation
I just read Dr. H. Steven Moffic’s post on Psychiatric Times, “The Space Station as a Model for Intercultural Cooperation.” I also read the blog of another psychiatric I consider a colleague and friend, Dr. George Dawson, MD, and it’s sort of in the oppositive vein, being about the recent snafu of some Republican Minnesota…
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If You Want Peace and Quiet from Government…
I’ll bet a lot of people are like me and would like more peace and quiet from government. There’s a crisis every day. There’s even some Minnesota Republicans who want to get a bill through the state legislature defining Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) as a new mental illness, applicable only to Democrats. Given the intensely…
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Politics on the Brain
I just discovered the news item about 5 Minnesota Senate Republicans who introduced a bill this month seeking to classify “Trump Derangement Syndrome” (TDS) as a mental illness. This is not a new idea, I think, and it targets Democrats as having the syndrome. There’s a big Wikipedia article about the history of the origin…
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Svengoolie Movie: A Lost and Found World Looks Less Than Marvelous
The title of the post is actually a clue to the solution to a picture puzzle riddle I made about the Svengoolie show movie last night, which was “The Lost World,” released in 1960. Svengoolie did one of his picture puzzle riddles which he calls “Too Drawn Out,” which uses a series of pictures to…
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Wonderful Windy Day
Well, the forecast was for a very windy day, more windy than we’d like. On the other hand, it was bearable on the Terry Trueblood Trail. However, the forecast is for high winds and hail and we’re not looking forward to that. The highlight was seeing a leucistic Canadian Goose for the first time. They’re…
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