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Halloween
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Halloween
October 31st, 1517 started out like most other days in Wittenberg.
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November 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Teens and Tweens
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Teens and Tweens
One way to think about a life cycle is the three phases of a human lifespan.
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November 12, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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Nifty at Fifty
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Nifty at Fifty
Fifty is the number of the day.
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November 11, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Too Much Information
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Too Much Information
I finally did my drunken octopus deep dive on DDoS attacks a few weeks back.
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November 10, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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When These People Met Those People
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When These People Met Those People
When we last visited these people, they were living in the Scottish lowlands.
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November 9, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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The Monster Between Us
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The Monster Between Us
You start with a pleasant enough conversation.
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November 8, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Blow It Out Your Ass
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Blow It Out Your Ass?
Sometimes, I’ll write a provocative title.
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November 7, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Carriers
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Carriers
A generation ago, I carried things around and delivered them.
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November 6, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Bits of Light
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Bits of Light
Just as a few of my ancestors were traveling across the Atlantic Ocean to form a new life in the American colonies and the Great Fire of London was raging, Isaac Newton’s corpuscular theory of light w...
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November 5, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Privates Surprise
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Privates Surprise
Go back far enough, and the word private traces its way back to Latin, where privus meant something like of one’s own. A homo privus was a person who was a private citizen, and someone who was prīvātu...
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November 4, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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Those People
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Those People
For a thousand years, Gaelic tribal leaders had ruled Ireland.
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November 3, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Zompires
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Zompires
Korean zombies are pretty cool.
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November 2, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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These People
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These People
Unsurprisingly, you have to go back to the Romans if you want to understand these people.
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November 1, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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In Through the Out Door
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In Through the Out Door
40 years ago, Raspberry Beret found its way very nearly to the top of the pop charts.
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October 31, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Counterculture
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Counterculture
You hear a lot of words that mean something similar during your lifetime, but the word counterculture is really straightforward.
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October 30, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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The Second Third
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The Second Third
It’s easy to think of electricity as having been around forever, especially in the US.
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October 29, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Appetite for Deduction
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Appetite for Deduction
Deduce this with me, if you dare.
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October 28, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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Standard Candles and Big Macs
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Standard Candles and Big Macs
If you’ve ever given a skeptical side-eye to claims that astronomers know the age of stars within a few millions of years, give or take, you are not alone.
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October 27, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Ode to O
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Ode to O
O, you are so beautiful to me.
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October 26, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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Aristocracy of Capital
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Aristocracy of Capital
…war with the present system of finance, which robs labour, and gorges capital, makes the rich richer and the poor poorer, and turns a republic into an aristocracy of capital.
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October 25, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Gould, Gold, Gilded
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Gould, Gold, Gilded
Every so often, a person is a perfect representation of an era or epoch, right down to their name.
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October 24, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Bolivia Election
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Bolivia Election
Here’s a headline for you:
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October 23, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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The Accidental Coffeehouse
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The Accidental Coffeehouse
Pasqua Rosée knew how to brew a good cup of coffee.
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October 22, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Whoa and Woah
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Whoa and Woah
Whoa whoa whoa, you’re thinking.
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October 21, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Tea Parties
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Tea Parties
Coffee was England’s first love, but tea took the lead some time in the mid-1700s.
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October 20, 2025 at 12:25 PM