Thursday, October 31, 2024

New World metallurgy

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I'd heard it proposed that the presence of so much native copper in Michigan, and trading so widespread, meant that there was no great p...
Wednesday, October 30, 2024

Banality

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Douglas Murray has at Hannah Arendt and her Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil , citing research that shows she was (a...
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Saturday, October 26, 2024

Time

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I'm helping beta-read a novel, and one aspect of it headed me down a rabbit hole about time, to a 31-year-old paper presented to the NC...

Internment

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We're all told about the US interning Japanese. I hadn't heard that the Canadians did too , and that some of the Japanese-Canadians...
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Thursday, October 24, 2024

Incitatus

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We vote for a president; we get a team. BBC's famous "Yes Minister" comedy assumed that the existing bureaucracy defines mos...
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Post-liberalism

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First Things has an essay by Nathan Pinkoski "Twentieth-century civilization has collapsed. It rested on an essential tenet of liberal...
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Leaves

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This time of year can be beautiful, with leaves changing yellow and orange and brown and red--highlighted by evergreens here and there. On ...
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Wednesday, October 23, 2024

Mushroom song

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The Internet is a wondrous thing sometimes. A fragment of a ditty about mushrooms stuck in my mind and surfaced today: I'd read it in ...
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Friday, October 18, 2024

Gleam again

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We went to Gleam again this year. The "Star Stuff" exhibit needed to be dynamic, and with more lights shining on their metal star...
Sunday, October 13, 2024

Tired of only seeing some relatives at funerals,

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we've planned some road trips. The south loop was earlier this year. We just finished the central-east trip. In retrospect, it was pr...
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Tuesday, October 08, 2024

Allegheny cemetery

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One feature not frequently remarked on is the groundhogs, who leave surprise holes here and there to twist the unwary ankle. Many of the old...
Monday, October 07, 2024

Risks

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I've heard the stories from North Carolina about officials blocking aid workers (though nothing so far on followup), and also people say...
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Wednesday, October 02, 2024

Reminder

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Their web site mentioned a 9am service, which was early enough for us to attend and still continue travelling. The service turned out to be...
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Tuesday, October 01, 2024

So far

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Traveling has been calm, setting aside the occasional lunatic driver, and visits with kinfolk have been very pleasant. And the hotel stays ...
Wednesday, September 25, 2024

Minor amusement

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I know I should use the time walking laps more productively, but I find it hard to compose in my head: I start a scene, but keep circling ba...
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Tuesday, September 24, 2024

Thinking about Rome

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Roman values at ACOUP, hat tip to AstralCodex
Monday, September 23, 2024

The guardroom was one rod long and one rod wide

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I have always found the temple measurements in Ezekiel 40-42 to be rather obscure. Why are these measurements supposed to be important eno...
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Sunday, September 22, 2024

Black Mountain, NC

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What's interesting to see/do around there? The Biltmore doesn't sound like my cup of tea. I gather there are a number of scenic ar...
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Advice

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A reader has asked whether she should return to college after dropping out several years ago. She’s still young, not yet thirty. Advice is d...
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Tuesday, September 17, 2024

Titan testimony

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The BBC is reporting on Lochridge's testimony about the Titan's implosion. The pictures are hair-raising--but lack explanation. D...
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