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The Ongoing Crisis: Christians Killed in Nigeria
The Ongoing Crisis: Christians Killed in Nigeria Paul Bock, 2025 Nigeria faces an unfolding and brutal campaign of violence against Christians, an atrocity that demands urgent recognition and accountability. While this humanitarian catastrophe has claimed tens of...
From Scrooge to Nero: A Journey Along the Money Spectrum
From Scrooge to Nero: A Journey Along the Money Spectrum Paul Bock, 2025 Money has a peculiar way of revealing the soul. Some clutch it, some fling it, and others strike a delicate balance—trying to spend with purpose and save with wisdom. Humanity’s history is rich...
A Glimpse in the Mind of Gemini
A Glimpse in the Mind of Gemini Paul Bock, 2025 Between July 22 and July 31, 2025, I interviewed Gemini 2.5 Flash several times. Gemini is a generative artificial intelligence chatbot and personal assistant, developed and maintained by Google. Gemini was...
The Vietnamese Jeweler
The Vietnamese Jeweler Paul Bock, 2023 Today I went to a jeweler to have some rings and earrings cleaned and polished. I have known this gentleman for about 25 years: his jewelry store was in the same city where we used to live a long time ago. Kiet Huynh is...
Philip Larkin: “This be the Verse”, answered
Medical Fads
In the 1950s post-menopausal women underwent examinations using a spirometer and the doctors drew conclusions of thyroid activity and many times they extirpated the thyroid. This was indeed called a “basal metabolism test” or sometimes a “metabolism check.” Doctors...
The Father Of Anesthesia in Romania
My letter to the medical community of Oradea, 2016. Dr. Alexandru (Sandy) Dobjanschi was my first cousin, the son of one of my motherly aunts, Rózsi, and the great-great grandson of a Polish general, who had to flee Poland after the 1848 Polish revolution. Dr....
The Secrets of Good Marriage
My wife and I were visiting the Railroad Museum in New Delhi. It was a Tuesday afternoon, our last day in India. Among the few visitors, we noted a young couple, with three children, two boys and a little girl, all under ten years of age. As we were watching the...
A Better Way to Invest: Finding Stability in a Volatile World
I've been investing for more than three decades, and in that time, I’ve tried almost every strategy imaginable: value and growth investing, market timing, options, day trading, and commodities. I learned the hard way that these methods are often either a slow, "wait...
Volunteering at San Francisco Earthquake
On Tuesday, October 17, 1989 a 6.9 magnitude earthquake shook San Francisco, Oakland, Los Altos and surrounding areas. The 1989 World Series, between San Francisco Giants and Oakland Athletics was scheduled to begin at the Candlestick Park at 5:35 pm and the pre-game...