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Dorothy and her dog Toto are caught in a tornado’s path and somehow end up in the land of Oz. There, she meets some memorable friends and foes on her journey to see the Wizard whom everyone says can help her return home and hopefully grant her new friends their wishes for a brain, ...
The book combines storiesand science in an accessible way. For example, researchers found that people really DO look like their dogs (at least, people can match which dog goes with which person, a fact I personally would argue is not quite the same thing) and that cat and dog lovers real...
We know there’s more to him, because Young Hoon and Ye Na both love him (maybe YN’s love is blind, but maybe it’s not, and for sure Young Hoon is a clear-eyed and clever guy) and because we can see it: him turning away from his mother’s pain. But none of that is So ...
Everyone enjoys a good reference. I particularly like ones from The Simpsons and Mel Brooks movies. Eagle-eyed readers can probably pick out a few of each in a lot of my writing. When a reference is used in a particularly clever or appropriate way, it can really connect with an audience...
Rather, it shows a mother and child approaching the ‘Gardens of the Human Condition’ with an expression of bewildered dread on the face of the mother, and in the case of the child, wide-eyed shock. Yes, as Leunig cleverly intimates, our world is no longer an innocent Garden of Eden,...
But instead of a filter on a camera like you would have with Snapchat where you have the dog ears, I could actually make that effect on the mirror because of the material. BB: Wow. JB: So when I figured that out, I was like, “Oh, that’s how I can shape-shift in les...
said her smiley-eyed classmate. “You are always bouncing all over the place.” Say what? The children were adamant that I have more energy than they know how to handle. Earlier that morning, the same girl had inquired as to whether or not I take any days off or just spend all of...
The coincidences just kept coming: I spoke just like him; we shared the same wry, but twinkle-eyed sense of humour, with a very similar style of delivery; we looked at religion in the same way (equal parts suspicion to derision); we both thought The Sopranos was the greatest TV show ...
I’ve also been known to suddenly start barking like a dog to inspire spontaneous laughter… quacking like a duck is also a good bet… trust me, once you get a couple of good laughs out of your subject… it’s all a breeze from there. Laughter releases endorphins and thus a gene...