Loquita asked me yesterday, Dec. 3, where the advent calendar was, and I just looked startled. [Read more]
Category Archives: video
—the capitalist equivalent of Spain’s Running of the Bulls. [Read more]
Failing to do so will sink us. [Read more]
Today I ran across a new entry in the field of maps-not-as-bad-as-Mercator, [Read more]
With all that’s new and exciting in the world these days, 21st century humans might begin to think that almost every truly remarkable innovation has happened on our watch. Look! We’ve got carbon nanotubes! Self-driving cars! 3-D printed food! I don’t want to take away from these modern marvels, but I have to say, while we were in Germany recently, we saw a wonder that could turn the world around. [Read more]
Today I’m going more general, with a TED Ed animation that provides some insight into a few of the ways that poetry creates its effects. [Read more]
From a 1638 manuscript by the Bishop of Hereford positing a goose-powered contraption for human flight,
I promised in early June that once I found the lyrics to the new verse of “Danny Boy” [Read more]
The finished piece looks so right and polished that it gives the impression that the work to bring it about was somehow effortless. [Read more]
Wait, it wasn’t even typed! [Read more]
