Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol
Sunday song: *New Love*
💚 🇮🇪 🍀 Happy Saint Patrick’s Day from Japan! For this week’s ‘Sunday song’ feature, I shazamed the remix version of this song somewhere in Kyoto the other night …
Nijō castle
This remarkable palace was the residence and work area of the last shōgun Tokugawa Yoshinobu. More details about the Tokugawa family clan and their role in Japanese history are available here.
Turning bullet trains into birds
I found the video below in a vintage 2017 blog post that was originally titled “Turning birds into bullet trains“, but isn’t it the other way around?
Happy Pi Day!
Pictured below are the first 13,689 digits of Pi arranged in an Archimedean spiral. Each digit is encoded by a small circle, and the color scheme is the 10-color red-yellow-blue Brewer palette. More details about this amazing graphic are available … Continue reading
Wikipedia Wednesday: J-pop
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/J-pop Also, check out the catchy ballad *Midnight City* by the J-pop band Number_i below:
REVISED TABLE OF *ADAM SMITH PROBLEMS*
I presented “DIE ADAM SMITH PROBLEME” at the Adam Smith Tokyo Conference yesterday (11 March 2024) and got lots of feedback. (Shout outs to the International Adam Smith Society for inviting me to present my work, to Waseda University for … Continue reading
FYI: Final program of this week’s Adam Smith Tokyo conference
I am reblogging below an announcement from the International Adam Smith Society (IASS): We are excited to release the final program for our 2024 conference [this] week at Weseda University, Tokyo. The program may be found here. We would … … Continue reading
Travel update: Tokyo
I am attending this year’s meeting of the International Adam Smith Society at Waseda University in Tokyo this week — here is a link to this year’s program; my talk on “Die Adam Smith Probleme” is scheduled for the afternoon of … Continue reading
Assorted links for spring break
Below is a partial list — in alphabetical order, by author — of some the works I will be reading on my long flight to Haneda-Tokyo (note: all the works listed here are open access except for item #3):
If you could ban a word from general usage, which one would it be, and why?
This fun question popped up in my WordPress dashboard the other day. My reply is below the fold:

