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How a Strange Grid Reveals Hidden Connections Between Simple Numbers

January 24 | Posted by mrossol | Interesting

Interesting numbers problem. mrossol https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-a-strange-grid-reveals-hidden-connections-between-simple-numbers?utm_source=pocket-newtab

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This is not how civil wars start

January 15 | Posted by mrossol | 1st Amendment, American Thought, Interesting

UnHerd  1/12/2022

I moved recently to a remote part of Northern California, where in a couple weeks an election will decide whether or not allies of the local militia take control of the county government. It’s a fraught situation, in a part of the country that’s often described by journalists, myself included, as being on the verge of... Read more

Why You Should Re-Read Paradise Lost

January 10 | Posted by mrossol | Education, Interesting, Literature

Milton’s Paradise Lost is rarely read today. But this epic poem, at over 350 years old, remains a work of unparalleled imaginative genius that shapes English literature even now. In more than 10,000 lines of blank verse, it tells the story of the war for heaven and of man’s expulsion from Eden. Its dozen sections are an ambitious attempt to comprehend... Read more

Fatherless

December 26 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Interesting, Marriage, Social Engineering, Western Civilization

Mary Eberstadt makes a pretty detailed analysis of how the absence of fathers in the lives of children, especially boys, has affected culture and society.

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Astronomers Discover Massive Planet 10 Times Bigger Than Jupiter

December 10 | Posted by mrossol | Interesting, Science

The Epoch Times and Nature,  12/9/2021  By Katabella Roberts

A group of astronomers has discovered one of the biggest planets ever found orbiting a massive and extremely hot two-star system, despite previously believing that such an environment was too inhospitable for a planet to form in. The planet was discovered by Markus Janson, a professor of astronomy at Stockholm University, and colleagues, according to research published... Read more

Merry Christmas 2021

December 9 | Posted by mrossol | Food, Interesting, Personal

So this year I will try a Christmas Card ‘blog post’. (I do have this ‘blog’ that tracks some of what I think.) 20 and 21 – who would have thunk it?! Well, at least in 2021 covid (or perhaps the authorities?) began losing its grip on us and life was not nearly as restricted as 2020.... Read more

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