Guardian News featured this clip of a woman playing the violin while undergoing brain surgery. The aim was to ensure that the surgeons were not damaging parts of the brain responsible for fine motor skills. Apparently having patients awake during such operations is not rare, but the violin playing was unusual.
Follow this link and go to a page at a site called flowingdata where data has been crunched on USA names born in different years in order to produce a search device that guesses your name based on what decade you were born in, whether you are male or female (or have a male or …
This chair is in the pulpit of the Presbyterian church at Penola. No one sits in it anymore, but it’s still there. A chair is not what the church is about, but it is a reminder of the centrality of the word in that place. It represents a wonderful legacy.
I wake up without an alarm each morning, but there are mornings where I’m 20 or even 30 minutes past the time I usually rise. Of course I’ve got any number of devices that I can set as alarms. Before those devices we used an alarm clock (or two). Some of you might even remember …
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