Tag: poem
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Batching It
Batching It When I was a small boy, I spent a couple of months every summer with my mother’s parents, in rural Bath County, Virginia. My grandfather was editor of the county’s weekly newspaper, the Bath County Enterprise. My grandmother was a teacher, and had summers off. She had dropped out of college many years…
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The Next Pandemic
A pandemic is essentially an intercontinental epidemic. Since early 2020, the world has experienced the pandemic known as Covid-19, caused by a coronavirus. It’s the most serious pandemic in a century, since the world was swept by the Spanish Flu (which did not start in Spain). Epidemiologists have known for many years that we would…
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Palindrome
A palindrome is a word, phrase or sentence that reads the same left to right as it does right to left. The simplest are short words like “mom” or “dad.” Both are the same word with the same pronunciation. Many other words are simple palindromes, such as “radar.” Palindromes go back to classical times; Greeks…