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Heading home this afternoon, after a delightful few days on Mt. Desert Isle. Little Long Pond, yesterday; this is a great walk for people no...

Roman puglio found in the Netherlands Many people oppose development because they hate ugly modern architecture . The turn of architecture ...

Exciting news in the worlds of ancient DNA and Celtic archaeology: Kinship practices underpin all traditional societies, forming the basis ...

On the Republican side, MAGA is morphing from a personality cult into an ideology focused on hating immigrants and rejecting free markets, a...

Herons on the dock this morning, testing out the 10x magnification on my new phone. Not bad. Osprey nest that guards the entrance to our dri...

We drove up to Mt. Desert Isle in the rain, and the first day looked like this. Today we took our traditional first hike, up a hill called B...

John Singer Sargent, Atlas and the Hesperides , 1922 Detail The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston has several John Singer Sargent paintings in c...

I'm off to Maine for a week, so there won't be much here but scenery. See you on the other side.

Anglo-Saxon coin found near Norwich last year; it shows a dancing man holding a Christian cross over a Valknut, a symbol of Odin. Chart of ...

Somebody on Twitter/X: Genuinely, I DO NOT like the concept of capitalism. I don’t want to work my job every day. I want to make art. I wan...

Richard Hanania writes that he at first hoped the rise of the "Tech Right", conservative tech founders and investors like Elon Mu...

Europa and the Bull, c. 200 BC One of the entries in Scott Siskind's book review contest this year was a review of Roberto Calasso's...

From a review of Breakdown in Pakistan by Masooda Bano, part of Scott Siskind's book review contest: Since Pakistan’s government is o...

We had some damage from fierce storms last week, but this week we have a riot of flowers, butterflies, and goldfinches.

A professor muses on the students he is teaching in the late 1960s and their notion that we are entering the Age of Aquarius, and realizes t...

Hours of Louis de Laval, c. 1480 Amazing wedding gift AI video . My entire fantasy novel, The Voice from the Darkness , is available now on...

After years of supporting Russia, Laura Loomer changes her tune about the Ukraine war: I did say these things about Ukraine and Zelensky an...

Daniel Miessler on Twitter/X : Something that the Ukraine and Iran wars have taught me is that for a lot of countries, including very big co...