The Funny Family Sitcom That Redefined Masculinity For A More Feminist Era
While situation comedies are something of a dying breed today, they were a television staple from its earliest days right up to the turn...
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Dan Connors
- Mar 12
- 4 min
An Immense World- an awe-inspiring trip into the hidden worlds of animals.
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us Ed Yong 2022 “A moth will never know what a zebra finch hears...
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Dan Connors
- Mar 5
- 13 min
Dietary supplements and the wild west of healthcare- 10 things that could make a difference
"To me, supplements are a necessity, not a luxury. I think of them as medicine: Instead of asking a doctor to prescribe me a drug when...
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Dan Connors
- Feb 11
- 6 min
Is Life Really a Beach? If so, our beaches may be dying
The Last Resort: A Chronicle of Paradise, Profit, and Peril at the Beach Sarah Stodola 2022 "If there’s heaven for me, I’m sure it has...
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Dan Connors
- Feb 5
- 6 min
Phasers on Stun- The Ultimate Star Trek Book
Phasers on Stun!: How the Making (and Remaking) of Star Trek Changed the World Ryan Britt 2022 "The power of Star Trek is that it...
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Dan Connors
- Jan 28
- 4 min
The Lighthouse Effect
The Lighthouse Effect: How Ordinary People Can Have an Extraordinary Impact in the World Steve Pemberton 2021 “I feel that we’re...
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Dan Connors
- Jan 20
- 20 min
Inspiring stories of kindness from the comments section
"Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible." Dalai Lama Normally, I stay away from the online comments sections of articles. ...
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Dan Connors
- Jan 19
- 6 min
Recap- 38 Books of 2022 that made me think and wonder
“The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest (people) of the past centuries.” - Descartes A big focus of this blog...
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Dan Connors
- Jan 16
- 5 min
The four scariest words in the English language
Let's Talk About Hard Things Anna Sale 2021 "When we avoid difficult conversations, we trade short-term discomfort into long-term...
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Dan Connors
- Jan 13
- 3 min
State-sponsored sin taxes- dirty money?
For all of the misery Covid-19 brought, it was a godsend to state governments, who found themselves awash in free federal pandemic money....
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Dan Connors
- Jan 12
- 5 min
From Strength to Strength- finding wisdom and happiness in the third act of life
From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life Arthur C. Brooks 2022 “Devote the...
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Dan Connors
- Jan 8
- 6 min
Water.org- The Amazing Non-Profit That's Transforming Lives With Microloans
The Worth of Water: Our Story of Chasing Solutions to the World's Greatest Challenge Gary White, Matt Damon 2022 “We never know the...
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Dan Connors
- Jan 4
- 6 min
Stupidity in politics. Whatever happened to education and expertise as admirable qualities?
Profiles in Ignorance: How America's Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber Andy Borowitz 2022 "Facts are stupid things", Ronald Reagan "I'll be...
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Dan Connors
- Dec 21, 2022
- 4 min
Fitting room theory- are the slobs winning?
"Leave it better than you found it" Robert Baden Powell Does the picture above disgust you? Fitting room abuse happens frequently, and...
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Dan Connors
- Dec 19, 2022
- 6 min
More Christmas Songs to feed your soul at the holidays and all year long
Recently, I did a deep dive into Christmas music videos. During the holidays Christmas music is everywhere, so much so that it goes in...
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Dan Connors
- Dec 15, 2022
- 4 min
Nuclear Fusion- God's little joke on humanity?
Big news. Maybe the most important news of the year. Scientists have succeeded in producing a nuclear fusion reaction that resulted in...
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Dan Connors
- Dec 12, 2022
- 5 min
Relationships- we may suck at them, but still we keep on trying
Plays Well with Others: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know about Relationships Is (Mostly) Wrong Eric Barker 2022 "If...
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Dan Connors
- Dec 7, 2022
- 5 min
Is Disney Too Woke? And What Does Woke Even Mean?
Does the Walt Disney Company have a woke problem? Unlike in any other period of their history, Disney is aggressively embracing...
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Dan Connors
- Dec 6, 2022
- 6 min
Is Toxic Positivity Killing us in the Pursuit of Happiness?
Toxic Positivity: Keeping It Real in a World Obsessed with Being Happy Whitney Goodman 2022 "Everything happens for a reason" "Be...
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Dan Connors
- Dec 4, 2022
- 6 min
The Marx Brothers- Lightning in a Bottle
“The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.” “I, not events, have the power to make me...
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