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The first full moon of the rainy season was a momentous occasion for the Dogon people of Mali. It marked the day, many countless moons ago when, according to legend at least, Moussa Diarra, one of their ancient forefathers, discovered Sirius B, the second star in the Sirius star system and one t...

The People’s Forum
February 19, 2019

The page numbers Professor Harvey refers to are valid for both the Penguin Classics and Vintage Books editions of Capital.

Looking for today’s inspiration didn’t take me all that long…

Thought I’d share. I’m a real giver like that.

I wrote this in August of 2010. Eighteen months after I got pulled into the indie movement. It is an introduction to a series of blogs I did called The New World of Publishing, but now it sort of serves as a reminder.

Thought it would be fun here tonight to look back eight...

Good afternoon from vacation. We don’t need to talk about it. If you told me you were on a sunny beach with fine white silky sand between your toes, fluffy aqua waves lapping at the edges, palm trees swishing back and forth, scooping aquachiles onto tortilla chips and marveling at the range of a...

You can listen to the audio of my answer or read the edited transcript below, which has some additional material added.

Sometimes we legitimize being mad at God, and we need to start by correcting that. There’s a difference between being profoundly disappointed, discouraged, or even depress...

I’m happy to have Julia Donner (M.L. Rigdon) on my blog today to tell us a little about her newest novel, NO EASY STREET, the second book in her Westward Bound series.  It’s available for pre-order on Amazon now.  NO EASY STREET and AVENUE TO HEAVEN are historical Western romances, and I enjoy th...

A lady in red moment tonight ❤ pic.twitter.com/Zr1TRJRPEV

— Mindy Kaling (@mindykaling) February 21, 2019

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கையில பணமிலலாமல, வழியில வணடிகளிடம கை காடடி ஏறிககொணடு இநதியாவை சுறறிவரும சிரிஷ யாதரி பறறி எழுதியிருநதேன. நூறுநாடகளுககு முன லடாககிலிருநது பயணததைத தொடஙகி இபபோது கனயாகுமரி வரை வநது சேரநது பயணததை முடிததிருககிறார. கனயாகுமரியில நணபர ஷாகுல ஹமீது அவரகளின நணபரின இலலததில தஙகியிருக...

Every day is #loveyourpetday at our house.

In 1987, well-meaning people believed that something could be done to lessen the Soviet nuclear and missile threat to Europe, and to make the world a safer and more secure place—a laudable pursuit. That something was the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty. This landmark agreement remo...

So, you maybe know this, you maybe don’t, but John Hornor Jacobs is a helluva writer. He is easily one of my favorite writers. If we’re being serious? Just between you and me? He’s too good. It’s gross. He needs to dial that shit back a little, come back down to Earth with the rest of us. I mean,...

Last weekend I got out to see the Denver Art Museum’s special exhibit:  Dior: From Paris to the World. Much like with the Star Wars: The Power of Costume exhibit from a couple of years ago, I’m really digging this fashion and clothing as art perspective.

The Dior exhibit had over a hundred gowns,...

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It’s been said (meaning I can’t remember where I read it) that the opening lines of a book sell the book, and the closing lines sell the next book.

Here are a few memorable closing lines.

• But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing g...

Curioso articolo sui bambini che scoprono di avere già una vita online, grazie alle loro foto pubblicate dai… genitori.

Hayden, a 10-year-old, said he realized several years ago that his parents used a dedicated hashtag including his name on photos of him. He now monitors the hashtag to make sure...

An Introduction

Calling Boskone my ‘first convention’ is nearly correct. It depends largely on how one defines ‘convention.’ I’ve been to a couple of other cons (Phauxcon, for instance) but this was the first time I attended something this large, and the first time I was a panelist.

Let’s say it...

а новости у нас такие:

вот здесь лежит полный альбом иллюстраций Алекса Клепикова к “Тарантулу” Боба Дилана. сейчас дело за малым – взять и издать его в таком виде

сэнсэй объявил о передаче своего архива Васэде. там дофига всего

вести про группу имени Пацана Кеноши

Арина Буковская о “Срединной Англи...

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere,” Martin Luther King Jr. wrote in his Letter From Birmingham Jail on April 16, 1963. King was arrested there for his role in organizing nonviolent protests against segregation, which were being led by the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth. “Birmingham i...

Recently, I’ve been getting a lot of questions from interviewers that I have never gotten before. They ask, “Are you going to join the latest trend and hire ghostwriters to put out more books in your series?”

So far, I have managed to refrain (at least on podcasts) from responding, “Are you fuckin...

Once Wrede convincingly showed that the Gospel of Mark was not a literal, factual description of what Jesus said and did, in his 1901 book The Messianic Secret (but that it, like the other Gospels, had incorporated its own literary and theological concerns into its account), the cottage industry...