Old-school news, just in time
by Kevin Burton A North Carolina State University research study offers tips for blind people on how to make social interactions less awkward. I found the story by NC State’s Matt Shipman on http://www.medicalxpress.com. “A recent study highlights the range of uncomfortable situations people living with blindness or visual impairment encounter due …
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by Kevin Burton I was born in the heyday of S&H Green Stamps. By God’s grace I have lasted into the era of bitcoin. I learned barter by baseball cards before I ever heard the word barter. I used to get fistfuls of Pesos for teaching Mexican nationals how to speak idiomatic American …
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by Kevin Burton There is a picture of Olivia Newton-John that haunts me. The picture is of her at the end of “Grease,” her character Sandy riding in the car with Danny, John Travolta’s character. She turns around and waves at the camera as they ride off into the high school and movie …
by Kevin Burton You feel sorry for me? I feel sorry for you. We all see what we want to see, full vision, partial vision or no vision. I can’t take in data with my eyes, not very well anyway. I’m doing OK though. And you? You have no concept of what …
by Kevin Burton Remember the interjection song from Schoolhouse Rock? The song says interjections are “generally set apart from a sentence by an exclamation point, or by a comma when the feeling’s not as strong.” Well I was feeling pretty sheepish about this, but I said the sentence “Yay! Football is back” …
by Kevin Burton The greatest marriage of all time marks its 101st anniversary today. May death never part the two. The two I speak of, baseball and radio. Baseball on the radio has been a comfort to millions of Americans all their lives. Baseball was the national pastime, radio a sort of national …
by Kevin Burton Animal lovers, music lovers, rejoice and unite! Scientists in Belgium are investigating a farmer’s claim that different styles of music affect the behavior of his pigs. “Piet Paesmans first noticed the phenomenon when his son started singing a tune in the barn during a sluggish insemination session his sows …
by Kevin Burton The starting pitcher in a major league baseball game sometimes gets to pick one or more songs to be played over the stadium’s PA system. Did you know that? I knew that but it wasn’t at the front of my mind one day, and it led an odd but cool …
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by Kevin Burton Faith is not a force in and of itself, nor is it even a virtue until it is aligned with the perfect object of faith. Faith is complete trust, but complete trustworthiness in the object of faith is the key to arriving at peace. We’re in a series from …
by Kevin Burton Not today, baby. Nope. Not feelin’ it. Yes the clock is tick-tick-ticking just like on 60 Minutes. Yes, I hear it. The winds of progress are whipping as usual, making the pages of my calendar flutter seductively. “Got to get a move on,” both clock and calendar …
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