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Posts by Charles Bergquist

Dear publicist, thank you for your suggestion of a segment on "how to host beautifully, cook seasonally, and create effortless al fresco gatherings all summer long." This topic is not a clear fit for SciFri, can you expand on the science of al fresco gatherings please?

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Somewhere in a secret bioweapons lab, researchers put the challenging smallpox and ebola research on hold to just churn out vats of influenza

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Book cover of a 'Bancroft Classics' edition of Wuthering Heights.  A dark and brooding man striding away from a house. A fancy man in top hat holds a riding crop in the background.

Book cover of a 'Bancroft Classics' edition of Wuthering Heights. A dark and brooding man striding away from a house. A fancy man in top hat holds a riding crop in the background.

This cover makes me think Wuthering Heights is maybe a zombie book, or perhaps part of the Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys universe

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They should give us a playbill with a lil plot synopsis and list of characters like stage theatre does

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Many people are saying it's the openest the strait's ever been. It's 1500% open

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If you can't remember how many times he's opened the strait, just look at a graph of oil futures prices and count the peaks and valleys

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Arc d’échec?

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Do you think the stores of kompromat will be released the day that It Happens, the day of a funeral, or some secret third day

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If you ignore scale, extreme brontosaurus vibes

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Also I really want to know the backstory behind it saying overdimensional instead of oversized

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I always enjoy entering the NJ Turnpike and seeing the sign 'OVER-DIMENSIONAL VEHICLES MUST EXIT.'

Picturing a Klein bottle tanker truck, or a big Calabi-Yau manifold speeding along

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Love to get up on a lazy weekend morning, grab the paper,

"Iran opens key strait, Trump and Tehran say, lifting hopes for peace" oh good, I think

I activate the Magic Horror Slab

oh wait I guess not

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Is Food Allergy a Disqualification for Military Service? As food allergies and food-induced anaphylaxis become more prevalent across all age groups, these medical conditions will render an increasing fraction of young Americans ineligible to join the U.S. A...

Some info on retention policies here. Basically, case by case basis

www.foodallergy.org/fare-blog/fo...

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Most food allergies pretty much rule out even attending one of the military academies. There are some ways to get waivers but few and far between

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Was just discussing 'a left-handed flea, or a crab on a slab at the bottom of the sea'

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A tile/granite store near me just put out a big sign advertising the materials they have available and "Free Stimates."

And I think I approve. Free Stimates for all.

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Or, hear me out... get a side of pizza with your fries

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It seems like just yesterday that the DOD spent millions on lobster and steak (o wait it was September)

www.foodandwine.com/department-o...

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$6.9 Million in Lobster Tails? Inside the Pentagon’s September Spending Surge The Pentagon spent millions on ribeye, lobster tail, and king crab in September 2025 — but it’s not quite the splurge it sounds like. A familiar “use it or lose it” budget cycle fuels a predictable en...

And that in September the Pentagon spent millions on steak and lobster www.foodandwine.com/department-o...

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One day the pigeon drives the bus, the next the turkey drives public policy...what next, I say, what next

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She is just taking her duties of promoting full employment and job training and development seriously

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Their viewpoints are just, you know, diverse.

You know the ones. Diverse ones.

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I would like an actual physical switch to turn devices on and off, not an app or a remote control

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(Rupert Holmes voice) 🎶 If you like giant echidnas.... And getting caught in the rain 🎶

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It is really weird how my local churches have all these pictures of doctors. In some they're even climbing trees

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Screenshot of an AI slip image depicting Trump as. Healing Christ figure, curing a prone Jon Stewart looking man as a cast of weird people look on.  5 soldier types are hovering in the sky,.

Screenshot of an AI slip image depicting Trump as. Healing Christ figure, curing a prone Jon Stewart looking man as a cast of weird people look on. 5 soldier types are hovering in the sky,.

There are many things I don't understand about the healing-trump picture he posted. But you know the weird hovering creature in the center top? It is not in this version, posted in Feb on Instagram. Someone ADDED the weird horned beast thing???

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In a bid to be Tougher on Crime, Pope Leo amends the Corporal Works of Mercy, specifying that one should 'visit the imprisoned' only to taunt them

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Crime-fighting Pope with Kung-fu Action Grip

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"In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by three separate yet equally important groups: the police, who investigate crime; the district attorneys, who prosecute the offenders, and the Pope, who popes. These are their stories".

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"In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by three separate yet equally important groups: the police, who investigate crime; the district attorneys, who prosecute the offenders, and the Pope, who popes. These are their stories".

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