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Wednesday, April 17, 2024
Population Peaks
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Via Birth Gauge on Twitter/X, a map showing when each US county peaked in population. Dark blue means the population is still rising. Lots ...
The Prepper Dream
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Stephen Marche in the NY Times: When I attended prepper conventions as research for my book, I found their visions of a collapsed American R...
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Monday, April 15, 2024
The First Hot Day
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I was back on the Potomac today for what turned out to be our first hot day of the year, 88 degrees (31 C). It seemed like I could feel gree...
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Sunday, April 14, 2024
Today's Place to Daydream about: Bologna
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Bologna has had a rough history. Founded by Etruscans, it was conquered by Gauls, then Romans. The Goths sacked it when they conquered Italy...
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Saturday, April 13, 2024
A Dreamland
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A writing experiment, my response to stories like Lovecraft's "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath" and E.T.A. Hoffmann's &q...
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Friday, April 12, 2024
Links 12 April 2024
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Paul Evans, Frosted Evening An argument that there are so few bones on battlefields of the Napoleonic period because of "grave robbing ...
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Thursday, April 11, 2024
OJ Simpson and the Question of "Misogyny"
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The death of OJ Simpson reminds me of something I've been thinking about for a long time: what his murder case says about the generalize...
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The Anson Street Ancestors
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Site of the Anson Street Burying Ground In 2013, a construction crew working in Charleston, South Carolina uncovered a cemetery. This turned...
Monday, April 8, 2024
Mid Spring
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I think we're past the danger of frost now, and I started planting seeds today, surrounded by beauty.
Listening to Nietzsche
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During my latest round of "monitoring" I had a long commute and needed something to listen to in the car. I had been doing mainly ...
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Friday, April 5, 2024
A Nice Surprise
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I was monitoring again today on the bluffs overlooking the Potomac, where the trees are just starting to put out leaves. The point of monito...
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