Unique 2,400-year-old timber structure found on banks of Main River
A 2,400-year-old timber structure in an outstanding state of preservation on the banks of the River Main in Bavaria. It is unique in Germany. No other structure of this age, construction method and…
'Art Is Distinction: Process Is Not Being'
“The words you see are all there is worth seeing.” Adagia are maxims, proverbs, the root of our current word, adage . It entered English from the Latin in the sixteenth century. In one of his…
going home
There are times during Mass when i think about the fact that one day i won't have to wonder what God is like anymore. I won't have to pray toward someone i can't see with my eye or keep trying to…
Éthique à l'usage de mon fils
Éthique à l’usage de mon fils Personal Rating: 9/10 - I read this book while I was in grade 9. It profoundly changed my perspective on life and started to spark my interest in different areas of…
Layers Of Language and Culture In West Eurasia (An Overview)
A useful way to think about the history and pre-history of Europe and West Asia since the Last Glacial Maximum is to frame it as a matter of techno-linguistic-cultural waves and layers. The earliest…
Chullin 127a (Part II)~ Spontaneous Generation
חולין קכז,אעכבר שחציו בשר וחציו אדמה שאין פרה ורבהThere is a mouse that is hard made from flesh and half from dirt, and does not procreateThe spontaneous generation of the half-mouseDeep into several…
Aristotelés v bublině chatu
Tři skákající tečky na displeji ve tři hodiny ráno představují snad nejabsurdnější ontologický prostor, jaký moderní technologie stvořily. Je to čistá aristotelská potentia - stav, kdy všechno může…
Guide to Porphyry of Tyre
This is a guide to ethnographic passages from Porphyry on this website: On Abstinence from Killing Animals Theophrastos on piety and human sacrifice among Egyptians, Thracians, Judeans, and…
Greeks, Egyptians, and Carthaginians: Porphyry and others on human sacrifice (third century CE)
Ancient authors: Porphyry of Tyre (third century CE), De abstinentia / On Abstinence from Killing Animals 2.53-57 (link; link to Greek. Comments: Porphyry (introduced at this link) turns to further…
Friday's little things
I actually decided to start this on Thursday afternoon after a wonderful walk, coffee, and some delicious fried rice my wife made. I often sink into some YouTube history documentaries that I find.…
Derrick Porter, Hoxton Poet
In 1971, Photographer David Hoffman moved into a squat in Fieldgate Mansions in Whitechapel and found himself at the centre of a lively and vibrant community. Learn the full story and visit Fieldgate…
Hollow Brick Discovery
During my recent vacation trip to San Francisco I took a walk around the neighborhood near our motel. At the northeast corner of Vicente Street and the Great Highway in San Francisco's Outer Sunset…
Condom made from a sheep's appendix
As reported by The Guardian : A 200-year-old illustrated condom will go on display with Dutch golden age masters in Amsterdam this week, after the 19th-century “luxury souvenir” became the first-ever…
Top Three Reports in Biblical Archaeology – August 2026
This past month, news reports from the world of biblical archaeology included stories about international trade on the Mediterranean, a bridge in Rome, and a Galilean fishing village. These were the…
Ayn Rand — a perverted psychopath
It is sickening to read this gobsmacking trash. But it is perhaps even more sickening that some people consider Rand some kind of intellectual hero. As Hilary Putnam rightly observed in The…
The UB Poetics List Papers
Skip to archive contents Brian Kim Stefans Arras Recent Index About Archive / Reading Editions / 1993–2014 The UB Poetics List Papers What did poets do before social media? They did this — better,…
Reflecting on Lapvona by Otessa Moshfegh
This past week I read Otessa Moshfegh's Lapvona (link opens to bookshop.org), a surrealist novel set in the titular petty, pre-modern, European fiefdom of Lapvona. It's a quick, horrifying, beautiful…
Alison Rough: One of Edinburgh’s Deadliest Property Investors
Alison Rough (c. 1480 — 3 September 1535) was one of Edinburgh’s most formidable businesswomen, and ultimately, one of its most notorious killers. Her story spans widowhood, financial…
Hebrews_1
Through. He is the bridge, the tunnel, the strong one who carries us. He is the power and the difference-maker. The Champion. Sat down. Old priests never finished their work. Jesus sits down, task…
Charles Masterman and Charles Dickens on 19th-century poverty
Here's a book review that features my favourite writers on Victorian poverty – the two Charlies. That's Charles Masterman and Charles Dickens. The book reviewed is Dying for Victorian Medicine:…
zhuge liang's axis
zhuge liang is obsessed with zhou yu who is the axis upon which every decision is determined and upon whom the world spins and takes shape. everything else may be uncertain, unclear, or abysmal, but…
Remembering Gloria Steinem
    REMEMBERING GLORIA STEINEM We just lost a cultural icon. Yet another American lighthouse has gone dark. Gloria Steinem, one of the most important figures in the history of the feminist…
Spread of Islam in Nusantaria
From Empire of the Winds: The Global Role of Asia’s Great Archipelago, by Philip Bowring (I.B. Tauris, 2018), Kindle p. 193: The establishment of Melaka and rise of Demak and other…
Image Annotation: for training or insight? Roboflow & IMMARKUS
The header image is the result of Roboflow’s automatic image segmentation & labeller tool, powered by Meta’s Segment Anything Model 3. We have a few thousand images from Everest at…
The co-pilot who bombed Hiroshima never got over it
Ask most people who flew the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb and you’ll get one name: Paul Tibbets. He’s the one who named the Enola Gay after his mother, the one who spent…
Comparing privative and equipollent feature systems
Years ago I saw Nic Danis present an interesting paper where he used relatively simple proofs to demonstrate that two different types of feature systems (one SPE-like , one with a special place node)…
The Nose & The Mouth & The Eye & The Brain
While poking around on the Laurentian Library yesterday, I came across a 2014 paper on the history of how people tried to make sense of Michelangelo’s puzzling reality: the classical orders he…
Autopsy.
I’m almost finished with Richard Tarrant’s Texts, Editors, and Readers (1, 2, 3), and I was brought up short by this passage in the concluding chapter: “some particularly important…
He was the reformer Ken Alibek‘s generation had been waiting for
Gorbachev came into office in March 1986, Ken Alibek explains (in Biohazard), determined to break up the corrupt bureaucratic fiefdoms of the Brezhnev era and to create a stronger, more cohesive…
What Does The Prayer (Hymn) Really Say? Iesu Redemptor Omnium
Here’s an experiment. Today in the Vetus Ordo we honor St. Pius X, of happy memory. For Lauds, we have the hymn Iesu Redemptor Omnium. I spotted something in it which made me want to drill a…
What Generational Pluto Reveals About Our AI Anxiety
AI is a digital mirror. How your generation reacts to artificial intelligence depends on your Pluto placement and stage of consciousness.
You’ve Got to Say It!
Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and through us diffuses the fragrance of His knowledge in every place (2 Corinthians 2:14).Yet in all these things we are more than…
St. Gregorius
Today is the feast of Pope St. Gregory the Great, Doctor of the Church. From his Moralia in Iob ( Book XXXI , sections 18-19) But hypocrites know not these bowels of charity. Because the more their…
Color and Consciousness
Color and Consciousness What is the relationship between the problem of color and the problem of consciousness? Could they be fundamentally the same problem? It isn’t that consciousness is color, but…
Best Insults in History
1. “He had delusions of adequacy. “ — Walter Kerr 2. “He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.“ — Winston Churchill3. “I have never killed a man, but I have read many…
EAST/WEST GERMAN DECRIMINALIZATION, DANIEL DEFOE’S PILLORYING, AND THE MISUNDERSTOOD MOLE
MY FREQUENT VISITS TO LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS are encouraged by a simple truism: Its writing is so blessedly good! Even to the literary quality of its readers.  Here are … Continue reading…
Birmingham's St. Vincent's Hospital on Postcards
In 2014 I posted an item about a photograph of St. Vincent's Hospital that appeared in a 1908 book Views of Birmingham . That photograph turned up on the second postcard included here. I thought I…
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Russian Literature: Short Stories and Novellas
An introduction to classic and modern-classic Russian authors. The Blizzard by Alexander Pushkin Marya Gavrilovna is a beautiful young woman, whose heart many men try to conquer, although she is in…
An Essay on Multiculturalism, Diversity and the Destruction of Western Civilization
An Essay on Multiculturalism, Diversity and the Destruction of Western Civilization Paul Craig Roberts Multiculturalism’s advocates present their agenda in […]
Belisarius and Narses
The outcome of the insubordination of John the Sanguinary created a dangerous precedent. General Narses disagreed with General Belisarius' approach to the conquest of Italy from the Ostrogoths, and…
Contractions
Homer, Odyssey , tr. Daniel Mendelsohn (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2025), p. 58 (from "A Note on the Translation"): On the other hand, there are times when I do relax the diction. I…
Myths vs. AI
I am currently reading Iliad. Have read it in elementary school bud did not like it back then. Now I quite enjoy it. Books like these have shaped human society and thinking for hundreds or thousands…
Be Killing Sin, or It Will Be Killing You
We kill and we fill. We fight and we feast. We remove and we indulge.
el hijo consentido
= the golden child → el hijo preferido, dilecto también, persona a el que se le consiente todo (mimado)
John Mitchell of the United Mine Workers of America speaking at Philadelphia on Labor Day | 1902
On Labor Day 1902, UMWA president John Mitchell stood before 50,000 people in Philadelphia and made the case for the striking miners of Pennsylvania's Coal Region. This photograph captures that…
Everybody says ciao
Ciao is a word I grew up hearing in both English- and French-speaking Canada (although always to say goodbye, never hello—whereas the Italians use it for both). I was a little surprised to also hear…
On Possibility and Necessity: Part 3, Suffocating on Necessity
To recap. In The Sickness Unto Death , Søren Kierkegaard describes the human self as a relation to the relation that constitutes human being. Our being is an ontological synthesis between infinity…
Mixed Feelings Only Turn Contradictory When You Name Them
Feeling grief and relief in the same instant looks like a glitch in your mind. A philosopher argues the glitch is in your vocabulary.
The LOC Veterans History Project, Part 2: Plan and Practice the Interview
If you want to have a veteran's story accepted into the US Library of Congress's Veterans History Project, this series will walk you through the steps. It's a way to keep a special part of family…