{"id":10002,"date":"2025-06-06T16:27:39","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T20:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/?p=10002"},"modified":"2025-07-02T16:40:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T20:40:55","slug":"collectanea-23-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/06\/collectanea-23-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Collectanea 23.25 Giants-Eggs-Amateur"},"content":{"rendered":"\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> 5<\/span> mins<\/span><\/span>\n

Week of June 2, 2025<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shadows, Giants, and Shadow Giants<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey stand not on the shoulders of giants, but in the shadow of them. Many of these student writers are haunted by college regulations against plagiarism that they suspect they regularly break, since they \u2018know\u2019 that nothing they write is or can be original and that they do not acknowledge every single source\u201d (101).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cTo locate plagiarism in an ethical realm is to describe it as a choice behavior; hence those who plagiarize can be punished and numbered among the rejected\u2014consigned to dwell in the shadows of giants\u2014for they have chosen to transgress against fundamental morals\u201d (160). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Rebecca Moore Howard. (1999). Standing in the Shadow of Giants: Plagiarists, Authors, Collaborators<\/em>. Ablex Pub.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Say Hello to My Little Hen<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Figure 1. “Say Hello to My Little Hen.”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Or, “Don’t Shoot Shoot Shoot That Thing At Me,” or “So I Says to the Security Guard, ‘For Pete’s Sake, She’s a Therapy<\/em> Chicken!,'” or “Hall County (Ga.) Fair Best in Retribution for Extreme Overproduction,” or “Loaded with Oyster Shells,” or “Bawk bawk ba-glock,” or “[your best title\/caption].” This is a dusty one, a few months old, inspired by noticing someone packing heat in public but wearing the piece casually, more like a shawl or high-riding fanny pack than with the self-seriousness of a safety conscious gun adorner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Incredible, Edible<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Salad season is hard-boiled egg season is now, the time of year when the hens are laying more eggs than we can reasonably<\/em> consume. So, insofar as batch hard-boiling, here is what I do to hard-boil 18 eggs because the outer shells slough off like boom bam bing nothing.<\/p>\n\n\n

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