Welcome to Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (aka, FOWC). I will be posting each day’s word just after midnight Pacific Time (U.S.).
Today’s word is “learn.”
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This, That, and the Other 
from my archive 🙂
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ODE TO LEARN
Yep today is Sunday
Despite my day of rest
I’m told I gotta use word learn
There, I done my best
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SHADORMA
live and learn
yes well i’ve done that
so what next
ignore it
truth and reality are
unpalatable
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Maybe we are learning … that the battle of the sexes doesn’t mean the world will come to an end. https://kajmeister.com/good-for-basketball
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What a fun story! I saw her interviewed, yesterday I think it was. She was quite well-spoken.
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Good to hear!
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I’ve been learning more… can’t see how this (what I’m quoting below) makes sense. And I don’t quite get how this guy and his wife were counterculture when known for acid, which the CIA was experimenting with on people at the time.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Kantner#:~:text=Kantner%20was%20born%20on%20March,of%20French%20and%20German%20ancestry.
After his mother’s death, his father, who was a traveling salesman, sent young Kantner to Catholic military boarding school. At the age of eight or nine, in the school’s library, he read his first science fiction book, finding an escape by immersing himself in science fiction and music from then on.[2][4][5] As a teenager he went into total revolt against all forms of authority, and he decided to become a protest folk singer in the manner of his musical hero, Pete Seeger.[5]
After graduating from Saint Mary’s College High School, he attended the University of Santa Clara (where he first befriended classmate Jorma Kaukonen) and San Jose State College (now San José State University), completing three years of coursework before dropping out …
I don’t know how it’s “total revolt” to graduate — which happens in your teen years — from high school and then attend college for three years.
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https://www.npr.org/2019/09/09/758989641/the-cias-secret-quest-for-mind-control-torture-lsd-and-a-poisoner-in-chief
The CIA mind control project, MK-ULTRA, was essentially a continuation of work that began in Japanese and Nazi concentration camps. Not only was it roughly based on those experiments, but the CIA actually hired the vivisectionists and the torturers who had worked in Japan and in Nazi concentration camps to come and explain what they had found out so that we could build on their research.
For example, Nazi doctors had conducted extensive experiments with mescaline at the Dachau concentration camp, and the CIA was very interested in figuring out whether mescaline could be the key to mind control that was one of their big avenues of investigation. So they hired the Nazi doctors who had been involved in that project to advise them.
Another thing the Nazis provided was information about poison gases like sarin, which is still being used. …
I think there’s more information in the recording than in the article — such as that Gottlieb might well have been a victim of these experiments himself had his parents not moved from Europe earlier in the century and that Sidney might’ve been a proto-hippie for eating yogurt — but this correction is at the bottom:
Correction
Oct. 27, 2019
In the audio of this interview, as in a previous Web version, Stephen Kinzer incorrectly says the end of Sidney Gottlieb’s CIA career came in 1972. It actually ended in 1973.
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https://www.history.com/mkultra-operation-midnight-climax-cia-lsd-experiments
ON APRIL 10, 1953, ALLEN DULLES, THE NEWLY APPOINTED DIRECTOR OF THE CIA, delivered a speech to a gathering of Princeton alumni. ….
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……. “We in the West,” the CIA Director conceded, “are somewhat handicapped in brain warfare.” This sort of non-consensual experiment, even on one’s enemies, was antithetical to American values, Dulles insisted, as well as antithetical to what should be human values.
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Three days after his speech decrying [“]Soviet[“] tactics, Dulles approved the beginning of MK-Ultra, a top-secret CIA program for “covert use of biological and chemical materials.” “American values” made for good rhetoric, but …
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