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As I have mentioned here in the past, each day I read a poem in the morning and a poem in the evening. This was today's morning poem: Autumn EndsLost in vacant wonder at how …

Photograph by James Kocher. Photography Contest, Honorable Mention. Caligo teucer – owl butterfly, Bayer Insectarium, St. Louis Zoo, January, 2023. Mr. Kocher writes, "An example of mimicry coloration. Butterfly has recently emerged from a chrysalis …

The 38th Annual Irish Economic Association Conference is being organized by the Department of Economics at Queen’s University Belfast and will be held at the Hilton Belfast, 4 Lanyon Place, Belfast (BT1 3LP), from Thursday, …

It’s some months since I read Marietje Schaake’s The Tech Coup, as she delivered the ST Lee Poicy Lecture here in Cambridge last November 11th, right after the US presidential election. Just a short time …

Over at Roy Thomas’s website he has several pages listing his comic book co-creations. As I’ve been blogging so much about Captain Mar-Vell, this section I stumbled across seemed interesting: … The post Roy Thomas …

The ‘exotic’ yet homely Central Asian restaurant hidden in Queensway Market Although it’s not quite as common as it used to be, there’s a hoary old cliche found on restaurant menus across the land: ‘home …

First new work of the year in support of the ongoing BDS boycott of Coca Cola products, and in recognition also of Coca-Cola's murderous repression of union organisers in South America. In 2017, Coca Cola …

Don’t get me started on the fact that if you do login, you’re taken to the store homepage instead of the specific page you were trying to visit in the first place …

The New York County Courthouse, on Chambers Street, in 1870: The building is much better known as the Tweed Courthouse, but I’ll assume for a moment that people reading this don’t know why. The photo …

Note: This article is based on updated research and is intended to replace my old article on Melchizedek, written several years ago. It has also been produced as a documentary at the MythVision YouTube channel. …

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Users don’t see (pay attention to) everything that is visible on a UISelective attention & content blindness in UX design — UX Knowledge Piece Sketch #65In this article, I’m going to discuss four types of …

Can’t get enough of bookandswordblog? This spring I will be teaching two short courses for the University of Victoria’s Continuing Education program. One of them is online on Tuesday 4 February from 6 to 8 …

Outside Frisch’s corporate office in Walnut Hills is a fenced off area known on Google Maps as the Big Boy Graveyard. I went there today to pay homage to these souls in limbo. My hometown …