A Commonplace Book

Stranger than Fiction is a smart, funny and moving philosophical fable. Emma Thompson gives a fine performance alongside Maggie Gyllenhaal,...

When young Kenneth Branagh directed himself as Hal in Henry V, he invited comparison with young Laurence Olivier’s 1944 film. Let’s compare....

Steve Muhlberger's Early History blog has a link to an interesting document on the subject on the rich Gallica site.

.. here . Also as writen by Sappho , G. K. Chesterton , H. P. Lovecraft and Flipper .

Steve Muhlberger’s Early History blog has an interesting quote from Geoffrey de Charny’s questions on war, concerning a combat between two o...

Let's give three cheers for NASA, our robots are on Mars Because we are American they look like shiny cars They're brave and unc...

From Dr. Alan Williams, author of The Knight and the Blast Furnace

The controversial Johns Hopkins study recently published in the Lancet follows up on a 2004 study by many of the same authors. The 2004 stud...

So says a recent Johns Hopkins study published in the Lancet . Is it true? That's a huge number: somewhat more, as a share of population...

In the 1954 film Sabrina , Humphrey Bogart and William Holden portray two brothers from a wealthy family. One is a nose-to-the-grindstone bu...