Halina Brown

The vanishing soap bar

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The other day I went to a local pharmacy to buy a package of my favorite facial soap bars. This was no easy task. In the section for personal cleaning products the top four shelves were filled with dozens of plastic bottles full of various liquid-washing agents, with or without dispenser pumps. The soaps were humbly … Read more

Halina Brown: “Sufficiency does not float”

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I regularly swim in a local pool and like to observe people’s behavior under various conditions of crowding. This Olympic size pool has six lanes of standard width. When there are three or more swimmers in a lane the rule is to swim in a circular way, bearing right in each direction. When there are … Read more