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Taking steps to stay healthy | North State Voices
It’s hard to keep your mind from wandering when your body is busy doing the same thing.
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Putin alone is responsible for this war | Editor For A Day
The arguments against providing military aid to Ukraine seem to fall into the following categories: (1) Putin felt threatened by NATO expansion and therefore had to invade, (2) Putin has...
Little common ground without common facts | Editor For A Day
I share Mike Wolcott’s desire for finding common ground, but frankly I’m not optimistic. Americans these days don’t seem to care about their fellow citizens unless they’re the same color...
Effective climate change response requires more than shaming
The deleterious effects of global climate change have become so self-evident that even former doubters have reluctantly conceded that it really is happening, it’s probably human-caused, and for the sake...
Pro vs. Con: On the subject of mandatory vaccinations
Every Monday, we let two readers tackle a topic of the day. This week, the topic is mandatory vaccinations -- something made all the more timely by some reported cases...
North State Voices: Traveling the world provides irreplaceable perspective
To me, one of life’s greatest luxuries is the ability to travel, to experience the world’s great cities, to visit its historical sites and see its spectacular sights, and to...
North State Voices: Adding up the ways math has affected my life
I became a mathematician by adhering to a basic principle of physics: following the path of least resistance.When I enrolled in college, I didn’t have any idea of which major...
North State Voices: Growing up a twin means always sharing a birthday
In an interesting twist of fate, my wife and I both happen to be twins.When I tell people I have a twin sister, it’s amazing how many of them respond...
North State Voices: Game of golf is thrilling, exasperating … and addictive
A day on the golf course brings a roller coaster of emotions.It’s exhilarating when you hit a long drive down the middle of the fairway, or chip in from off...
North State Voices: A toast to beer, one of humankind’s greatest inventions
I love beer.As my wife of 37 years can attest, I don’t use the “L” word very often, but when I do, it’s heartfelt.I love everything about beer. The “psshh”...