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  • The Eccentricities of an Evolving Odd-Toed Ungulate

    February 4, 2021

    “Odd-toed”? Horses have hooves; why not say “single-toed” instead of “odd-toed”? Turns out, depending on who you ask, horses may have three or even five toes on each limb.

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  • Of Travelers and Itinera: From Jerusalem to Japan

    January 19, 2021

    The art of cartography is one that has undergone constant revision. Mapmakers have sometimes gotten things wrong for centuries at a time. Public contradictions abound. Yet we never stop making maps.

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  • Happy Public Domain Day, 2021!

    January 1, 2021

    This year’s list items entering the public domain in the United States includes several notable works from 1925, the year the British Broadcasting Company called “the greatest year for books ever.”

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  • Advent Darkness, Christmas Light, and Life Beyond

    December 24, 2020

    Articles of note from month of December

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  • How Karl Marx Saved My Christmas

    December 22, 2020

    I was combing through Barbies, Lego sets, and the latest versions of Monopoly in search of something to give my two-year old for Christmas. Nothing particularly excited me, and there was nothing I could think of that he actually needed. My limited parenting experience told me he would get more entertainment out of the box and wrapping paper than the actual item anyway. But it seemed bad form simply not to buy my child a Christmas gift. So there I stood.

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  • “Forces”

    December 14, 2020

    Original poetry from Veritas Journal.

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  • The Flowers of St. Francis (Book and Film Recommendation)

    December 7, 2020

    In the midst of the great crisis of truth that followed the World Wars, Rossellini’s films suggest that there is no more true character than someone playing himself.

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  • Zombies on Your Mind?

    November 19, 2020

    Just what is consciousness and how does it work? What does it mean that I am aware? That I am aware of myself? Does it arise entirely from the brain? Is it a function of a soul? Are other animals conscious? How would we know? Does individual consciousness survive beyond death? And what about ... zombies?

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  • Backward Miracle

    November 6, 2020

    Every once in a while, we need prose, not poetry, says the poet. We need just the vessel with the wine and nothing more. We need a single loaf and the single fish and that is all.

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  • On Nursery Rhymes, New Organs and Human Happiness

    October 27, 2020

    Articles of note from month of October

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  • Feb 04, 2021 The Eccentricities of an Evolving Odd-Toed Ungulate
  • Jan 19, 2021 Of Travelers and Itinera: From Jerusalem to Japan
  • Jan 01, 2021 Happy Public Domain Day, 2021!
  • Dec 24, 2020 Advent Darkness, Christmas Light, and Life Beyond
  • Dec 22, 2020 How Karl Marx Saved My Christmas
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