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I wanted to find the number of citations per year for a paper from my dad, at least per Google Scholar. Hacking around, here’s a little JavaScript to get it per results page: function extract(resultNode) { const titleElem =...
Few people anticipated this war; before it happened people said it was impossible. But nothing is impossible in history. We cannot take historical reality as something that is already provided, we have to work against it to create a new...
Source A genomic blueprint for bison recovery was also blurred by private herd managers who experimented with cattle crossbreeding during the 20th century. While these efforts were generally unsuccessful, they introduced a persistent...
20 places of interest in Vitoria-Gasteiz (assuming it isn't festival week) 1) Catedral de Santa Maria What marks out Santa Maria Cathedral as special is that it very nearly fell down, hence even ten years ago you could only visit in a...
The time has come for our biennial PR push, as we head into election season. However, this is not our forte. So, if any readers have thoughts about how we should approach this particular problem, or have relevant professional expertise,...
There’s something wonderfully comforting about a warm corn muffin, especially when it’s baked in a small batch just right for one or two. These Small Batch Corn Muffins are tender, lightly sweet, and full of that classic cornmeal flavour...
Sponsored: This article is made possible by Frank & Myrrh, supporting quality and engaging Catholic content. Some Catholic devotions are familiar from childhood. We learn the Rosary, walk the Stations of the Cross during Lent, or pray a...
Editor’s Note: Matthew Chicoine interviewed the Association of Friends of Saint Carlo Acutis USA, via email in the summer of 2026. Some of the questions/answers may have been rearranged, edited, and paraphrased to provide the best reader...
An early morning cruise; suddenly, I was aware of a large creature swimming alongside the boat. "A beaver? Surely not- must be a muntjac.... no! not at all deerlike, and with a big flat tail!"We were keeping pretty much the same pace,...
Kamikaze tricyclists and fighting on the beach I grew up in the Fifties in Port Tennant, a tight-knit community on the east side of Swansea, in a world of terraced houses and sprawling, imagined battlefields, shared uneasily with my...
In the previous article, we looked at std::indirect — C++26’s answer to the “I need a heap-allocated member with value semantics” problem. indirect<T> always stores exactly a T. But what if you need to store a Circle or a Rectangle...
You have probably heard of Tommy Wiseau's The Room, a B-movie that everyone mocked upon its release, only for people to return to it years later and admire its lack of quality and horrible dialogue, making it a cult classic as something...
I.Matthew Adelstein (aka Bentham’s Bulldog) and Richard Chappell debate the existence of God. So do JP Andrew, Benjamin Tettu, Sangwon Lee, Ethan Muse, other Ethan, and “Atheistic Journals”, all within this month! I thought the...
Early this year, I set up Linux Mint dual boot with Windows 11, coming back to desktop Linux after so many years: Return to Linux While my time with Linux Mint has generally been good, I have been meaning to try some other distros for...
In a prior post, I mentioned the scene from Casino Royale where Vesper Lynd says, “I’m the money” and Bond responds, “…every penny of it.”I suddenly started wondering why Bond would say the word “penny,” given that it’s a name for a unit...