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Every week, I share something I learned in the previous seven days. I usually find these while I'm putting my weekly newsletter together but somehow, they don't quite fit! This week I learned about five islands you cannot visit - and why...
Continuing our look at the final four Canons of the proceedings of the 1215 Fourth Lateran Council, we come to Canon 68, which wanted to make sure everyone knew who a Jew (or Muslim) was, so they could avoid them if desired.In some...
Green whines at the nest on Friday 26 June 2026 (photo from the National Aviary falconcam at Univ of Pittsburgh) 28 June 2026 On Friday one of this year’s juvenile peregrines burst into the Cathedral of Learning nest and complained...
Costing honey as if bees were paid Australian minimum wage. A fair jar runs about AUD$12 million; AUD$10M of that is the hive's fixed OPEX.
The Maybe-One War A Hundred Years Plus More Civility Labor Pains No Asterisks Getting to the Point Siege Engines Leading the Witness Corporatocracy And Guns, Too And Still More Today Reforms Get It Together How (Not) To I sometimes get...
I’ve revised my “Memory is an Otherworld” post and added audio narration. I may start doing this now and then. Nothing improves a piece of writing like a rural accent with authentically dropped g’s. 😂
The weather is… infuriatingly tropical, but tolerable (we’re used to the heat this time of year, but the dampness is relatively new), and shifting all my morning meetings to my standing desk has markedly improved (but not fully healed)...
Meet Fred and Ethel (named by my adorable wife). You should get one of these feeders that sticks to your window. It’s wonderful to be able to see birds within two feet of my chair. The marking you see on the window are flowers drawn by...
For most Android users, downloading an app begins and ends with the Play Store. But beyond Google's storefront is a thriving community of developers building software with a different philosophy: one centered around transparency,...
Sunday Asides #101 The Obamas have been outside lately with the grand opening of the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago this past Juneteenth weekend, and I gotta say, seeing them and hearing them all over the place lately has felt...
I’m obsessed with coffee. I‘ve been since I was a teenager. I‘m sure part of it has to do with good memories, but there aren‘t many bad things in life that a good cup of coffee can‘t fix.
While I’m playing with that more-than-hundred-year-old management book…how to reproduce drawings: It occurs to me that most people reading this need one or more terms translated or explained: In addition to “drafter,” there used to be a...
This is Part 4 of The Great Balkans Road Trip. If you’re new to the series you can start from the beginning here. I’m doing a circular tour of the Balkans with a solo travel company called Just You, starting in Romania, travelling...
Here are some informative paragraphs from the placemats at Tutti Santi, home of “legendary Italian pizza” in Kielce, Poland. Włosaka pizza to setki lat historii. Na to, jak smakuje, ma wpływ jakość produktów, ale tez wiele lat...