this week’s popular posts
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the coffer illusion : studies in cross-cultural perception have insights behind their controversy— see previously rolling stock : new ... -
Spotted only a few days ago by astronomers in Chile at an associate observatory under the auspices of the international Asteroid-Terrestr... -
We really enjoyed this essay from Aeon Magazine contributor Cameron Allen McKean that looks below the fold of the memes and tropes to exa... -
To provide reconciliation pursuant to title II of the House of Congressional Representatives Resolution Fourteen, according to its long ti... -
On this day in 1962 in Area 10 of the Yucca Flat testing grounds of the Nevada National Security Site in the US southwest, as part of Opera... -
Via Waxy , we found this meta-analysis from the Pudding of gendered characters in children’s literature to be quite engrossing and seeing t... -
The first Master of Stage Craft (preferring his neologism Spielgang to the more orthodox term Theaterstück—I was later disabused of my... -
Since its adoption in July of 1954, the Johnson Amendment as a provision in the US tax code has prohibited non-profit organisations, cha... -
On the way back from Morbihan in south Brittany, we crossed back into the central Loire valley and found a nice campsite on l’île aux Moul... -
Some miscellany: Lots of streets here are named in honour of a Doctor Laennec. This esteemed individual from Quimper, René-Théophile-Hyac...