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A lot of our current mess can be understood through the long transition from #modernism to #postmodernism. Not as an academic debate, but as a lived reality. Modernity believed in progress. It believed that society could be understood,...
"The real question is, why did she do this kind of work?" In 2007 John Maloof, a local historian in Chicago, found a huge stack of film negatives in an auction and began scanning them. It quickly became clear that they were of some...
Mary Jo Kopechne was one of Washington's sharpest political minds. She died in Ted Kennedy's car at Chappaquiddick in 1969. The full story of who she was and what really happened.
Joel J. Miller points out that Serious Reading was Always a Minority Sport.* His thesis is basically that, after a period of mass book buying, we are reverting to the norm. After all, book reading has for most of history been a minority...
Taking a look at my recorded sleep data from the last 2 & a half weeks, as well as thinking about other data points to track.
Here today, gone tomorrow
A jumping spider snags a meal.
Muskoka died yesterday. It all happened so fast. I’m still in shock. I haven’t slept and my eyelids are so puffy from crying. Today is the first day of never going on another morning walk together. Those walks were my favourite part of...
Happy Mood