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Recent Examples of orgoneAnd for better or worse, practitioners have always stood at the ready, prepared to intervene when our chakras seemed blocked; when our humors seemed unbalanced; when our meridians surely became constricted; when our orgone levels were all out of whack.—Ashley Fetters Maloy, Washington Post, 10 July 2023 And then there was orgone, discovered, or imagined, by Wilhelm Reich, the Austrian psychoanalyst and fallen Freudian.—Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2021 The Food and Drug Administration questioned his claims about the orgone accumulator and believed that the device was a cover for more illicit activities.—Washington Post, 18 June 2021
Sinner gave him almost no chances, but there was a glimmer of light in the 10th game, when Djokovic had four chances to break Sinner’s serve.
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Jerome Pugmire,
Los Angeles Times,
6 June 2025
When light strikes the interface between two materials with different refractive indices—such as glass and air—some of the light is reflected while the rest is transmitted through the material.
As actual spirits, released from their corporeal form, or visions conjured up by the eyes or minds of those who see them—or something else?
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Deborah Treisman,
New Yorker,
1 June 2025
Garrett, Allegany and Washington counties are now symbols of neglect, where economic despair has replaced the industrious and seemingly indomitable spirit that had once defined them.
One such soul was Madeline Buol (1902–1986), a devout Catholic and beauty shop owner living in Dubuque, IA, right across the Mississippi River from Dickeyville.
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Chadd Scott,
Forbes.com,
7 June 2025
See, what’s not on the Niagara Falls/Buffalo brochure is that Buffalo’s got a whole lotta soul.
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