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• What’s the debate? • [2½ MIN READ] One of our ACF guys has a twin sister. This means sis Jada and bro James are fraternal twins, dizygotic, i.e., ones that develop from 2 different eggs. Identical twins develop when a fertilized egg divides into 2, the halves containing the same genetic material. “Monozygotic” twins … More Identical Twins Are Always the Same Gender
• A boo for the Four Sisters • [2 MIN READ] Not every piece of information joins with others to make sense when we want them to. That happened when I tried to figure out how I managed to sprain the middle toe of my right foot when I wasn’t even running. The question to … More What Goes Around Comes Around (#209: ZY Weekly Newsletter 1/17/26)
• A fool’s exercise • [2 MIN READ] ”Running” and ”jogging” are words that have bothered me for a while. When I started running in 2012 (Mid-life Crisis), I didn’t start consider myself a runner until I sustained the habit of moving fast enough to keep both feet off the ground repetitively while maintaining a … More Jogging: Converging on a Definition (#190: ZY Weekly Newsletter 6/7/25)
• But how to punctuate it? • [3 MIN READ] There’s a phrase that I like to use in speaking that hearkens to levity and relaxed speaking. But it poses a problem in writing because of the question of how to punctuate it. For this academic librarian, that—in turn—raises the question of acceptable information sources. … More One Particular Grammatical Contraction
• Applying higher level thinking to lower level writing • [4 MIN READ] A definition of scholarship I like to use is ‘scholars writing for other scholars with scholarly intent’. As for the definition of scholar, I use ‘someone who contributes directly to schooling’, i.e., a teacher or an educator. Most of the time, suitable … More Common Knowledge and Relative Authority
• When you decide not to hang up • [7 MIN READ] One of the people I get together with regularly is happy to break bread at any of a few places where we usually frequent, but occasionally we need to expand our horizons. A recent attempt to do just that became an exercise both … More Hello? I’m Looking for Information
I’m sure most jobs have aspects that are not part of the job description. They’re the stuff of water cooler conversations. And if the bulk of your job requires working with students, the drama can increase dramatically. How you react to an interaction can then make it the stuff of legend. Enter an honors student. … More Life Coach: A Legend in Their Own…
“Would you give me a list of acceptable journals for doing my research?” It seems like a reasonable question to ask, but the nature of scholarly information makes it easy to answer in an unexpected way: No. It’s a problem I face every time a department goes through accreditation and asks me to provide a … More Credible Journals
Being a university librarian affords me some amazing opportunities. Like the chance to attend a lecture by a Nobel Prize laureate. Every year Arcadia University awards an honorary degree to 2 individuals at both our graduate and undergraduate commencement ceremonies. This year we honored Montgomery County Commissioner Val Arkoosh, M.D., and 1985 Nobel Prize laureate … More Lectured by a Nobel Prize Laureate and Returning the Favor
Using Google to identify images. … More Short and Sweet: Use Google Well
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