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Thus far this week (see here, here, and here), we have reviewed Adam Smith’s tedious and painstaking reconstruction of the rise and fall of the East India Company. What lessons can we learn from this epic episode in the history of...
Wild shouts, barks, yelps and handclaps accompany a fierce acoustic strum. Machines strike up a big, banging mid-tempo march, and an insane, insistent accordion leads a deranged, drunken dance. Party whistles blow and it’s on. Less a...
“Hey, I escaped the ropes of time once more.” Between shorter beginning and end chapters, the hourlong middle is a diary of a week spent with family in Lithuania, in a hundred numbered chapters. Handheld scenes, sometimes nicely composed...
Still thinking about this… watched Resurrection a few months ago, and have been meaning to re-watch Holy Motors. As these churn over in my memory, they feel like cinematic siblings. Also, that last act of Resurrection is in my permanent...
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I praised the note-taking app Bear before for its memory; the app would always remember your last-visited note and the precise place within it, even if it had every right to forget it. But there is a general problem here: memory that...
From @danielpunkass.micro.blog on making things: A lot of people like to make things, and making things is great. But if you want to be a software developer, you have to enjoy fixing things. If you don’t enjoy fixing things, you’ll never...
Very interesting short video that shows the methodology currently used in neuroscience hangs a big question mark over the validity of recent research. This is similar to problems in the field of psychology where many studies have failed...
This post concerns the following conjecture of Sendov, as well as its strengthening by Phelps–Rodriguez: Conjecture 1 (Sendov’s conjecture) Let , and let be a degree polynomial with all zeroes in the unit disk. Then for every zero of ,...
Remember the horror series Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma? The original starred Billy Preston, an actress who has vanished from public view. Obligatory sequels followed, establishing the Camp Miasma movies as a horror staple that...
Attackers are adept at using new technologies to enhance their attacks. Earlier this afternoon, for example, I got call from “American Express” suggesting that I needed to “verify a transaction.” The caller used a robotic voice similar...
This week’s theme: Happy Third Anniversary to the Jazz Collector Live radio show and podcast, featuring the best of something. Featured artists include John Coltrane, Lee Morgan, Curtis Fuller, Kenny Drew, Paul Chambers, Philly Joe...
Join me this Saturday for tea and cakes freshly baked to a recipe of 1720 served in a three hundred year old house in Fournier St overlooking Christ Church. Click here to book for THE GENTLE AUTHOR’S TOUR OF SPITALFIELDS . Chris Miles...
on this trip back to Hawaii, I learned that the only bank in Hawaii that used to cash US Savings Bonds no longer does...boo!You now you need to fill out a form and get it notarized if the amount you are cashing is over $1000I also need...
A simple tip from a wilderness medicine instructor: Once a year, check the expiration dates on your first aid and medical supplies, then replace what’s needed. Read More ... Continue reading Quick Tip – Mark and update your OCD yearly!...