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Lighter makes righter

30 April 202326 April 2023 Mark Barnes 41 Views

This is the follow-up to my previous column, “Light makes right.” If you missed that one, I described packing my

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Light makes right

26 April 202326 April 2023 Mark Barnes 50 Views

It’s been nearly two decades since I took off for a whole week on a motorcycle, so heading to this

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Low strung

15 April 202326 April 2023 Mark Barnes 31 Views

I just got a massage, a really good…long…thorough…deep-tissue massage—the kind that leaves you in an altered state of consciousness. I’m

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Rehab (Part 2)

30 March 202326 April 2023 Mark Barnes 53 Views

In Part One of this report, I described my cornering difficulties in the wake of brain surgery five years ago

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Rehab (Part 1)

15 March 202326 April 2023 Mark Barnes 46 Views

I sent the following letter to Aaron Rankin, Chief Motorcycle Instructor at the BMW US Rider Academy, located within BMW’s

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Livin’ the dream

28 February 202326 April 2023 Mark Barnes 26 Views

When someone says they’re “livin’ the dream,” they abolish the distinction between wishful fantasy and mundane reality, proudly or gratefully

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Foolishness SQUARED!

15 February 202326 April 2023 Mark Barnes 28 Views

So-called “common sense” is, of course, not common. Foolishness, on the other hand, is always, well, close at hand. What

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Confidence Man (no – the GOOD kind!)

30 January 202326 April 2023 Mark Barnes 32 Views

The term “confidence man” denotes someone who exploits others’ trust for his own personal gain at their expense. Such swindlers

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Clearances

15 January 202326 April 2023 Mark Barnes 23 Views

Many examples of advanced engineering were actually conceived much earlier than you might imagine. The designs couldn’t be implemented until

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Vestiges

30 December 202226 April 2023 Mark Barnes 23 Views

Biologically speaking, a vestigial structure is a body part that was useful at an earlier stage of evolutionary development but

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