Dr. Science’s Pets

Do you own a pet? What kind of pet is it? Is it well trained?

———- from Brad Schnurr of Deerfield, IL

I have Rodney, my research assistant. Most of the time he does what he’s told, and when he doesn’t, the shock collar corrects his random deviation. As for non-human pets, most of them have been reptiles, or amphibians. They make Rodney seem positively warm blooded in comparison. When I was a boy, my parents took us on a Mexican vacation, and it was there, on a beach that I stumbled across a giant sea turtle, laying her eggs. Fortunately, she fit neatly in the trunk of our car, and today she’s queen of the radiation containment pond at the lab.

Growing Up

When I was a child, I always thought being a grownup would involve making decisions and using the kinds of knowledge possessed by adults. Now I am a man, and I’m employed in the mailroom of a large corporation. My job involves repetitive tasks that any fifth grader could manage, although I have a college degree. What happened?

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Crisis of Faith

>When I was a child, I use to believe in fairies. I believed that fairies brought autumn gold to leave, that they brought frost to the window panes. I even believed in the tooth fairy until I was in high school. Now I don’t believe in anything, even science. Can you help me in my crisis of faith?

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Processed Words

Nowadays, most authors use word processors to write their books. Are books written this way as intellectually nourishing as those written with natural, unprocessed words?

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