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Took a fun trip to Antietam today, first the iron works and then the battlefield. This is the Antietam furnace as it was rebuilt around 1845...

MeerKAT radio map of the Milky Way's core. Notice the "vertical" filaments (perpendicular to the galactic plane), which are a ...

Matthew Yglesias takes up one of my favorite topics, the people who think the decline of housewives means we have gotten dramatically poore...

Roman intaglio showing a grasshopper driving a chariot, 100 BC to 100 AD AI can steal Crypto . Scott Siskind, Against The Omnipresent Advant...

Trump of course wants the shooting of two National Guardsmen by an Afghan immigrant to be about immigration, but all the signs are that it i...

Tim Latimer: The biggest threat to American global competitiveness, and it does not matter if your priorities are climate change, affordabil...

Available here .  I have long wanted to produce an audio version of The Raven and the Crown, to my mind by far the best thing I have writte...

Matt Yglesias: Kurt Gödel, the great logician and philosopher, claimed that a loophole exists in the US constitution that would allow the pr...

Caroline Sutton of Slow Boring explains that an infusion of market methods revitalized how Feeding America distributed donated food to food...

Medieval Monastery on Skellig Michael, Ireland From my old web site: “This is a history,” Alistair Moffat tells us, “of whispers and forget...

The big complaint right now across the anti-immigrant right is that the US has lost its "common culture." So let me ask: when did ...

Jan Josefsz Van Goyen, Brussels , c. 1650  Peter Paul Rubens, preparatory study for The Martyrdom of Saint Paul , detail, 1550s David Tenier...

Ross Bleckner, Untitled, 1984 Cambrian Chronicles ponders all the stories of drowned lands surrounding the Irish Sea, 20-minute video . Ther...

Gnomus (lower left) in a 1555 Illustration of Mining Word origins are a common subject of discussion in my house, and this morning we puzzle...

Another book review from my old web site, written in 2012.   James Kirkpatrick I have learned more from William Dalrymple's fascinating ...

So I finally did it, broke down and found a copy of the most famous work of modern "Romantasy." This was for two reasons: because ...

Hungary has gone all-in on promoting births : Since 2010, Hungary has implemented a variety of policies, including zero-interest “baby-expec...

Renee Diresta: The cleanest way to understand what’s happening on X is to go back in time to Veles, Macedonia in 2016. A group of teenagers...

November 23 is Fibonacci Day, because 11/23 is the first four digits of the Fibonacci sequence. Leonardo Bonacci (c. 1170 – c. 1240–50; nobo...

Perusing old photographs taken by the American Corona spy satellites, British archaeologists spotted this interesting pattern in eastern Kaz...

Mosaic in the House of the Boar, Pompeii Thirty-four years of Strandbeests, 22-minute video . Jeremy Horpedahl, "Four charts to overco...

Kelsey Piper at The Argument: UCSD has offered remedial math for nearly a decade — but lately, the share of students requiring it has skyroc...