I grew up in a time when we didn't have computers in the classroom, just books, notebooks, a teacher, and a chalkboard. On special days, an overhead projector would make its appearance too. At the…

Exploring the history of the Williams Creek waterway in Indianapolis.

Lauren Hall, Elizabeth Peel & Saul Albert Download transcripts | Keywords: Agency, Virtual Assistants, Participation, Footing, Technology How should we understand participation and agency in…

By Eric Schubert As Harrisburg reflects its 100th anniversary era, it is worth highlighting figures whose lives connect this region’s civic history to broader national change. One of those figures is…

In 1940, Eleanor Jarman escaped a 199-year prison sentence and vanished. In 2025, researchers think they found her grave in Denver, and her own family went to visit it.

Why the minority always rules the majority—and the noble lies that make us accept it.

A while back I related how I had been mocked by an English person for using the word “burglarize”. I ended by saying: Okay, whatever. Brits have been mocking the American language for centuries now.…

Orginal post: 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Johann Henrich Nölken was born say 1733 (assuming age 25 at marriage). He married in Glandorf 11 May 1758, Maria Catharina Wenneman . 1 She was born about 1736…

Aristophanes, Wasps 488-489 (tr. Jeffrey Henderson): How you see tyranny and conspirators everywhere, as soon as anyone voices a criticism large or small! ὡς ἅπανθ᾽ ὑμῖν τυραννίς ἐστι καὶ ξυνωμόται,…

Ontology of Psychology Every subject has its basic ontology—its preferred subject matter, the things it takes to exist, what it is committed to. In physics it is macroscopic bodies, particles, and…

Philosophy of Learning In philosophy we study perception, knowledge, belief, memory, and reasoning—but not so much learning. In psychology learning is central, but in philosophy it is peripheral at…

at some point, my swedish outpaced my german, and i've been thinking about why, while also deciding to put actual effort into my german as well. i technically lived there for a bit over a year, but…

Today we look specifically at the institutional racism against Jews established by Pope Innocent III in the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215. Of the 70 canons of the council proceedings, the final four…

I avoided reading this for a couple of years because but I found it to be incredibly thought provoking. Magid strikes me as an incredibly intellectually honest and rigorous writer. His thinking and…

From an early-1900s textbook on managing an architecture or engineering office, an illustration of a daily log book: It looks very familiar. The most foreign thing about it is that all of the…

from afar he turns me on i am a shuddering tree his hands all over me leaves on my limbs belonging and dying i reach toward a second son tight grips after gentle strokes this…

Beasts, chevrons, and scrolls I apologise to any readers who have been frustrated at my previous post, which illustrates a notable Norman church but discusses the flowers in the churchyard. If that’s…

This is my great-grandfather, born Dominusz Andor in Szeged, Hungary in 1886. In the picture he is in Brooklyn, New York, probably sometime in the early 1950's. By 1911 Andor had moved from Hungary…

I was reading some articles from a newsletter I receive weekly, curated by the father of a former student, consisting of a collection of internet links. One of them was from an advice writer, and…

Three ways one little word packs a major punch.

Contents Introduction The explanation Conclusion Introduction While quite a fundamental law in logic, the contrapositive is certainly not immediately intuitive (or at least it was not to me). After…

This is the 250th anniversary of the United States, and as a result we’ve heard the term “semiquincentennial” a lot. (Well, a lot more than usual.) That reminded me of several past…

September 1907. "Minneapolis, Minnesota." With the Metropolitan Building center stage. Panorama composite of three 8x10 inch glass negatives. Detroit Publishing Co. View full size.

What is the ideal human being? Some people might say it's a rockstar. Some would claim it's a philanthropic billionaire. Others would answer that a genius doctor-scientist is the ideal. But when we…

I had the pleasure to present at this year’s Livingmaps Conference, on the theme of Shared Earth, Unequal Burdens: Living Maps for Environmental Justice. The project I recently completed, Sins…

Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be. This unique existence of the…

# Notes on Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy

Just as water, gas, and electricity are brought into our houses from far off to satisfy our needs in response to a minimal effort, so we shall be supplied with visual or auditory images, which will…

This is the third part (I, IIa, IIb, III) of our honestly-who-knows-how-many part series laying out some general guidelines for how pre-modern armies are recruited, raised, equipped and paid. In the…

Notes from a closer-than-usual re-reading of Flaubert's l'Éducation sentimentale

Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, had been slowly turning from friend to foe of Henry VI ever since Henry allowed Gloucester’s wife Eleanor to be arrested and imprisoned for witchcraft and treason.…

Researching a Pennsylvania ancestor in 1976? Use the Social Security Death Index, vital records, directories, and living memory to document the Bicentennial era.

Hi folks, the next Scottish Research Online course from Pharos Teaching and Tutoring Ltd ( https://www.pharostutors.com ) returns 6 July 2026. The following is its description: Scottish Research…

Imagine a community of people who pass encrypted messages to one another, without knowing what they mean. Agent X has encrypted a message and handed it to messenger A, who passes it to messenger B,…

The Odi Cult and the Kalladikode NeeliIn the previous article, we read about Yakshis, especially Kalliangattu Neeli and the Panayanar Yakshi, and their connection to the Kadamattathu Kathanar. While…

The Friends of Argyll Estate Archives will be hosting a two day event on Tuesday 3 November and Tuesday 10 November, with both sessions starting at 6pm. The following is a brief description: Finding…

Is this confusion just a normal part of getting to know someone before you two become an official couple? Or is this person playing games with you? Are you expecting too much clarity too soon? Or is…

(jump right to the tool here if you want to try it out right away) I’ve been seriously into Japanese literature now for roughly two decades, and I remember being overjoyed to discover Aozora Bunko, a…

On this page of Talmud, the Mishnah discusses the kind of things which, if eaten by an otherwise kosher animal, could render it treif. For example, “if it drank foul water” even though the animal is…

Death, Grief, and Frodo's Incurable Wound / The Bible Is Never Enough / Saying Goodbye to Moses / No Service for Jesus Is Small / Writing is Pain, But Environment Can Help / Ask Whatever I Wish? /…

Peng Dehuai’s 1959 private letter to Mao Zedong. Mao circulated the letter at the Lushan Conference and had Peng criticized for it. From Wikipedia: Lushan Conference The Lushan Conference was a…

Oscar Wilde penned an indictment of us.

The Taoist idea of Wu Wei (無為) has always seemed very ambiguous to me. In my own life, I often recall this principle, along with whatever interpretation of it suits best at the time, when making…

The Kwakwakaʼwakw Haida Nation, and Chinook Indian Nation are Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast, inhabiting regions that extend from present-day British Columbia to Washington and…

"the continual sekyng of the soule plesith God ful mekyl" In Chapter 10 Julian moves from her first showing—Christ crowned with thorns—to her second showing: The bloodied and discolored face of Jesus…

I live in California -- specifically in the San Francisco Bay Area, a place whose history is indelibly shaped by the gold rush of 1848. And, having proposed in last week's essay a speculative path to…

Anybody who has been following this series will be aware that in England in the Early Modern Period, mathematical and scientific instruments played a central role in the world of practical…

Η γλώσσα αναπόφευκτα προοδεύει και πρέπει να προοδεύει διότι σαν ανθρωπότητα δημιουργούμε νέες έννοιες, κι έτσι χρειαζόμαστε νέα σημαίνοντα για αυτές τις έννοιες. Σε αυτό το άρθρο εισάγω μία…

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I’m sure you’ve had a moment in life when you realized you existed. That you were a person, in a world with other persons, with moral and ethical implications for all of your actions. When you felt…