Assistant Village Idiot

 

A very cold looking rabbit hole.  I was trying to remember the name of Telemark skiing. Tavistock, Tuckahoe, termagent... I was on the rec...

Another solid, numbers-and-logic based essay at ACX:  Vibesession: Much More Than You Wanted To Know . I have seen a few people trying to so...

I mentioned our home Advent liturgy, which we use as a table grace. We have a responsive reading from Isaiah, a short reading around the the...

It is also a round.  But it doesn't have to be, does it?  

 Evolution is as lazy as it can possibly be without you dying. That's what efficiency means.

 The Good News Is That One Side Has Definitively Won The Missing Heritability Debate  A simply great summary of the recent controversy on he...

I don't object to making group immigration decisions on the basis of the best group information we have available of who will be most li...

Because I am signed up for it I could put up my own articles very easily. I would just write them here and then copy them into the other for...

 Karen Read and the Business of Outrage  at the True Crime Times. Like the author, I was not surprised that the mere mention of her name inc...

 Let's do a hard launch for Advent.  It caught me by surprise this year until my wife brought out the Advent wreath and the nightly litu...

Bringing Emotional Cognition to Deep Time , by archaeologist John Hawks. A recent paper looks at evidence of giving care to family or tribe ...

 Window-weather  a word that exists solely in Icelandic.  The pieces of it exist in other Scandinavian languages, glugga meaning "wind...

The choir sang this Sunday. Listen slowly.   

 Chesterton 's Fence   Jesse Tree   One of the now-grown children of our weekly Bible study - Sponge-Headed Scienceman's daughter, i...

Noah Carl at Aporia has just put up a research article Academic Petitions and Open Letters . It is fairly brief, and I am appreciative tha...

James's comment about Clyde Crashcup caused me to "research" whether there was any connection between Jay Ward and Ross Bagdas...

 Paul Radulescu, Baritone Re-review  of 1491 No links, but I had a small batch of posts about the countries that liberals want us to emulate...

 If you like paintings of the sea, there is William Trost Richards. Beyond the Binary is a Sea of Nonsense   Philosophy Professor from MIT g...

 Ed West: Visitor From a Dying Empire . I have been hearing for at least a decade that in discussing Britain, the division is not England, S...

I consider him the greatest playwright of the last hundred years, likely more if I think about it. You will read much reminiscence about him...

Herman's Hermits liked doing old English Music Hall songs  

 New Hampshire's Purple Finch CF Payne has a fascinating series of paintings:  Every state bird in the shape of the state it represents...

 It's nice that people have their traditional Christmas Skeletons up so soon after Thanksgiving.

In the arguments about whether young people have it easier or harder than Boomers financially, people rely on stories, either personal/famil...