this week’s popular posts
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The second star of the constellation Ursa Major (the Big Dipper or the Plough or in Arabic ุจََูุงุชُ َูุนْุดٍ ุงُููุจْุฑَู , the daughters of th... -
Aeon magazine directs our attention to a 1972 segment from the BBC documentary series Look, Stranger that portrays a more measured, c... -
Via ibฤซdem , we are directed to the ensemble housing estate of Ivry หข/ Seine , a Parisian suburb just southeast of the capital, designed ... -
Again losing control of the narrative and lashing out with chaotic and contradictory claims of progress towards achieving a peace accord, Tr... -
The codex of customary law, fรฉnechas, in medieval Ireland included quite a sophisticated and substantial register of “ bee-judgments ,” as... -
of all the us presidents he’s still the mussoliniest : Randy Rainbow reprises his rendition of the Major General’s Song, see previously —via... -
Stealing the title from the OP at MetaFilter because it couldn’t be improved upon—a favourite snowclone of mine lately that usually with... -
Via Language Log , we are treated to Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal’s latest one panel comic—with mouseover title shown—that provides a ... -
Initially unconvinced of the need for retaliatory strikes on Iran after the downing of a US Apache helicopter gunship, unclear if the cra... -
On a recent long road trip, I contracted quite an earworm in the form of the Bananarama song “Robert De Niro’s Waiting…” when it came on t...