Showing posts with label Nathaniel Mauger. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nathaniel Mauger. Show all posts
Sunday, January 19, 2020
Sunday, July 14, 2019
Friday, October 19, 2018
Final Jeopardy 10-19-2018
October 19, 2018
Final Jeopardy Category:
Sports
Final Jeopardy Clue:
A low center of gravity is a key to success in this sport with moves including gaburi-yori & uwate-dashinage
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Final Jeopardy Answer / Question:
Sumo
Tuesday, October 2, 2018
Dopesick (2018). Beth Macy
Dopesick(2018) Beth Macy
Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
Wow. I thought I knew something about the opioid crisis but it turns out I had no idea. For instance, I had no notion that a drug company (Perdue Labs) had the ability to reformulate oxycontin into a form that would be more difficult to abuse but waited to do this until their patent expired on the original.
The big misconception is that you cannot get addicted if you just use narcotics for “true” pain. That is completely wrong. Macy makes that clear in case after case of people who are put on oxycontin after injury or surgery and cannot get off and eventually resort to heroine. Macy also spends a good deal of time dispelling the myth that abstinence is the only solution. Not a very cheerful book but if you want to learn what is happening around us this is it.
Final Jeopardy 10-2-2018
October 2, 2018
Final Jeopardy Category:
Oscar Hyphenates
Final Jeopardy Clue:
This actor has never been nominated for acting–he won, though, as a writer for 1997 & as a producer for 2012
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Final Jeopardy Answer / Question:
Ben Afflect
Monday, October 1, 2018
Final Jeopardy 10-1-2018
October 1, 2018
Final Jeopardy Category:
World Literature
Final Jeopardy Clue:
In a recent poll of 125 authors, this long 1870s novel about a woman ranked as the greatest work of fiction of all time
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Anna Karenina
Saturday, September 8, 2018
Friday, July 27, 2018
Book Review: Revenge of Analog (2016). David Sax
Revenge of Analog (2016) David Sax
What do paper notebooks, vinyl records, film, and board games have in common? They are all examples of a persistence or reversion to old school modes as delivered by David Sax. Is this a trend or the exception that proves the rule. Are board games going to overtake computer games/ Will we all turn to using longhand and quills to communicate? Of course not. It is interesting and probably important that in the midst of technologic progress many of us choose to engage in things we can touch and enjoy without the use of computers. I am not a Luddite but I see this as a positive thing. Interesting book.
Book Review: Revenge of Analog (2016). David Sax
Revenge of Analog (2016) David Sax
What do paper notebooks, vinyl records, film, and board games have in common? They are all examples of a persistence or reversion to old school modes as delivered by David Sax. Is this a trend or the exception that proves the rule. Are board games going to overtake computer games/ Will we all turn to using longhand and quills to communicate? Of course not. It is interesting and probably important that in the midst of technologic progress many of us choose to engage in things we can touch and enjoy without the use of computers. I am not a Luddite but I see this as a positive thing. Interesting book.
Final Jeopardy 7-27-2018
July 27, 2018
Final Jeopardy Category:
American History
Final Jeopardy Clue:
The last survivor of this battle that started a war died in 1854 & more men marched at his funeral than fought with him
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Final Jeopardy Answer / Question:
Battle of Lexington (and Concord)
Thursday, July 26, 2018
Final Jeopardy 7-26-2018
July 26, 2018
Final Jeopardy Category:
Famous Names
Final Jeopardy Clue:
Almost 100 when he died in 2018, this North Carolina man became just the 4th private citizen to lie in honor at the U.S. Capitol
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Final Jeopardy Answer / Question:
Billy Graham
Friday, July 20, 2018
Final Jeopardy 7-20-2018
July 20, 2018
Final Jeopardy Category:
FUTURISTIC Fiction
Final Jeopardy Clue:
Fear of the social reorganization represented by an auto tycoon’s innovations inspired this 1932 novel
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Final Jeopardy Answer / Question:
Brave New World
Thursday, July 5, 2018
Final Jeopardy 7-5-2018
July 5, 2018
Final Jeopardy Category:
American Authors
Final Jeopardy Clue:
Her 1896 New York Times obituary called her “the writer of probably the most widely read work of fiction ever penned”
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Final Jeopardy Answer / Question:
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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