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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meiji_Restoration The Meiji era (“enlightened rule”) was officially declared by Japan’s 122nd emperor, Meiji, on this day (23 October) in 1868. It was during Meiji’s reign, which lasted until 30 July 1912, that Japan was transformed from a poor and secluded feudal … Continue reading →

I just signed up to attend this virtual workshop on “Homer and Artificial Intelligence”!

That is the title of this intriguing paper by Wes Henricksen, a law professor at Barry University in my neck of the woods: Orlando, Florida. His paper (see also here), which was just published in the British Journal of American … Continue reading →

Via Kottke: “Cássio Vasconcellos took aerial photos of scrapyards and arranged the junked cars, planes, trains, and other objects into dense photographic collages.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hawk_and_the_Nightingale A fable is a short story, typically with animals as characters, conveying a moral, and one of the earliest recorded fables in the Western literary canon, if not the first, is the fable of the hawk and the nightingale … Continue reading →

The Swedes have brushed aside the great Thomas Sowell yet again …