A Commonplace Book

In a comment on the previous post, Hugh Knight quotes Buzz Aldrin: History will remember the inhabitants of this century as the people who w...

I was born half a year before Sputnik, back when we and all our machines were trapped at the bottom of Earth's gravity well. Back then, ...

The Republicans don’t like it, but they like parts of it. The electorate doesn’t like all of it, but they like parts of it. The Democrats ca...

Dawn Chorus comprises films of 19 singers that uncannily recreate birdsong in their ‘natural habitats'. The individuals are located in ...

The Case for Teaching Less math in Schools

Awesome clockpunk goodness : images of computing devices from the 14th century to the 1950s.

The latest Gallup poll gives some indication of the reaction of most Americans to the health care bill the Democrats have rammed down the t...

Arms and Armor's Fechterspiel sword has attracted favorable comments . Here is another review. Medieval fighting schools developed bl...

The 3D is not as perfectly executed as the best contemporary 3D films, but the 3D version adds enough to the experience that it's worthw...

Recently, I was able to view the Parement of Narbonne in person, and noticed a detail that wasn't visible in reproductions available to...