Thing Finder

In the December 2009 issue of Naval History is an article Confluence of Careers at Mobile Bay by Craig L. Symonds, charting the respective c...

Upton Sinclair, in a comment that seems especially pertinent these days with what seems to be serial tsunami of revelations of analytical an...

From the September 19-25, 2009 edition of New Scientist . An interesting summary of the status of our theories (and lack thereof) to expla...

Came across this comment in William James' essay, The Importance of Individuals , which is worth a read. An unlearned carpenter of my a...

An essay by Thomas Bailey Aldrich, On Early Rising , has this marvellously elliptical rail against early rising: The intelligent reader, an...

An interview in the October 31, 2009 edition of New Scientist with popular sicence fiction writer Terry Pratchett.

From the September 19-25, 2009 edition of New Scientist . One of the main themes emerging at the DOM meeting was that the foundation of succ...

The Winds of Fate by Ella Wheeler Wilcox One ship drives east and another drives west With the selfsame winds that blow. 'Tis the set o...

Herodotus relates a tale in his Histories , in which Cambyses, King of the Persians, sends an army of 50,000 to subjugate and punish the pri...

When in my early teens, I lived in Europe and was particularly fascinated with World War II with many people I knew having personal or famil...