The Secret Journals of Wilton String

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The main role of adipose tissue or body fat is to store energy in the form of fat, although it also cushions and insulates the body. It is actually a type of loose connective tissue. Obesity or being overweight depends on the amount of body fat—specifically, adipose tissue — you are carrying around. Adipose tissue also  produces hormones. The... [Read more of this review]

Got worked up over the redesign of the Swarthmore College alumni calendar and despite having been kicked out after two years had the gall to post a diatribe on the class listserve: I think it is true that the calendar is a valuable tool and it is also true that some minds in the administration have gone a bit squishy of late. The “classical”... [Read more of this review]

When your nose is to the grindstone it is hard to see where you’ve come from and where you’re going. A look at the 30-year Dow Jones Industrial Average can provide some interesting perspective. When you first look at it you see a slow, steady climb from 1979 to 1995 and then a quick rise to a significant high point followed by a tumble almost... [Read more of this review]

In 1963, we brought back from our tour in Germany with the Army Signal Corps seeds we had gathered from the giant pines in the Black Forest region. We grew them in window boxes, hundreds of seedlings that we thought would become a forest on our land … but our dachshund puppies had other ideas. We salvaged a couple of dozen seedlings and left... [Read more of this review]

“A page of history is worth a volume of logic” Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., New York Trust Co. V. Eisner, 1921 Long before there was an English language, the users of the Arabic language, as early as the sixth century, had already produced outstanding works of poetry, history, medicine, mathematics and astronomy. Paper was being produced in Baghdad... [Read more of this review]