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A piece on identifying birds by ear, written for English Class Magazine
I’m kind of surprised that Lillie Langtry (1853-1929), English “professional beauty,” socialite, actress, and producer,
The company that led the consumer AI race might be losing the naming one.
All One Song - “Barstool Blues” with Matt SweeneyWe’ve covered a lot of Shakey ground so far during All One Song seasons one and two, leaping from decade to decade, from era to era, from album to album. It’s easy to do when you’re...
All One Song - “Barstool Blues” with Matt SweeneyWe’ve covered a lot of Shakey ground so far during All One Song seasons one and two, leaping from decade to decade, from era to era, from album to album. It’s easy to do when you’re...
The American Museum and Gardens in Bath, England has a collection of Renaissance maps that came to them from the private collection of the museum’s co-founder, Dallas Pratt. This collection was the subject of an… More
3rd June 2026 The root cause of this outrage is not addressed by this pruning * The proposal for a ‘anti-weaponisation’ fund seems to have been dumped. The acting Attorney General of the United States said at Congressional meeting...
From Lenin’s Asylum: Two Years in Moldova, by A. A. Weiss (Everytime Press, 2018), Kindle pp. 53-54: Lyudmila Petrovna asked if I could say a few words. I’d prepared a stern lecture about the importance of homework and intellectual...
We’ve decided, after 122 episodes, to put The Metrics Brothers podcast on hiatus. Let me explain how I think about that decision.On October 20, 1974, the Grateful Dead played what was then billed as their final show before an indefinite...
Donna Spiegelman shares this presentation she gave at the recent American Causal Inference Conference. I like what she has to say. Here are the two parts of the stable treatment value assumption: 1. No interference between units. As...
DIY search is coming...