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(Author's note: this is so nerdy that I hesitated to post it when I wrote it last week, but, well, here it is. If you don't want t...

Trump and Evangelical Christianity Spitalfields Life at the 134th Italian Parade in Clerkenwell Scott Alexander's review of Red Pl...

Making the rounds on Tumblr.

Big exhibit at the Met of work by Indian artist Mrinalini Mukherjee (1949-2015). These are made from hemp rope using a technique somethin...

Politico: Baby boom-era Americans piled into their station wagons and visited historic sites in such record numbers in 1962 that the Nat...

Awesome: We often overestimate our explanatory prowess, exhibiting an illusion of explanatory depth (IOED). In the IOED paradigm, particip...

Peter Wells is one of the leading archaeologists of early medieval Europe, and in Barbarians to Angels (2008) he tried to sum up the main...

Bronze ornament depicting the Etruscan sun god Usil, who drove a chariot across the sky just like Helios or Sol. Dated to 500-475 BC. 8 in...

Scott Alexander attended San Francisco's Gay Pride Parade and came away thinking it was eerily reminiscent of both Easter parades in ...

Sleep, you black-eyed pig, Fall into a pit full of ghosts. – from Iceland, early 19th century

 Contemporary British landscape painter. More at  his web site.

Kamala Harris went after Joe Biden in the first Democratic debate for his opposition to mandated school busing, bringing it back into the di...

"Literary fiction is increasingly borrowing from the horror genre to explore the fears and anxieties of modern motherhood." – He...

In the long history of the old complaining about the young, one refrain has been that young people are immoral. That have never really been ...

Nan (Anne) O’Toole of the Claddagh, Galway city was an Irish fishmonger and herbalist born in 1877: For infants suffering with bowel pr...

By request I am experimenting with a weekly post of links to things I liked but didn't get around to writing about: English gardens ...

"Rationalist" Jeff Kauffman offered this list of policies he supported back in 2014 and other self-proclaimed rationalists have li...

Fascinating macro photographs; more at My Modern Met.

This review is going to be one of those where I tell you what this book says so you don't have to read it. Because while it is full of...

Medusa from one of the ships built on Lake Nemi by Caligula as a sort of floating palace.

Trump nonsense is not really my thing, but as a historian of the Potomac River Valley I could not resist the stories coming out of the Pres...

German artist, born 1963. Perfect World (Gold), 2016.  Many of his works show modernist architecture, especially houses. Soul of Li...