Thursday, February 28, 2019

A Numismatic History of Hungary

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Nagyszüleim magyarok voltak. My grandparents were Hungarians. Actually, the empire being what it was, my grandmother's father was Croati...
Monday, February 18, 2019

Book Review: Blink by Malcolm Gladwell

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Intuition is underappreciated. We like reams of repeatable data and validated statistics. As important as those are, they are perhaps less ...
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Sunday, February 17, 2019

World War II Sweetheart Dance (2019)

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We had a great time at the Texas Military Forces Museum Valentine’s dance. This year, we prepared by taking dancing lessons. I signed us up...
Sunday, February 3, 2019

CODES AND COINS

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Coins were invented about 600 BCE, about 3000 years after money (as we understand it) was invented. Within three generations, by 500 BCE, c...
Monday, January 28, 2019

The Wise Men

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Averell Harriman, Dean Acheson, and George Kennan were names that I grew up with, reading daily newspapers and weekly news magazines from t...
Sunday, January 20, 2019

Coffee at the Co-op: Tradition and Novelty

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Traditional Marxism teaches that capitalist firms attempt to drive each other out of business by seizing markets. On the other hand, the Aus...
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Saturday, January 19, 2019

The Atlatl

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The throwing stick was invented about 30,000 years ago. It extends the arm giving force (as range and speed) to a spear. Used widely across...
Wednesday, January 16, 2019

The Night of January 16th

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Telling someone that you enjoy reading the works of Ayn Rand is different from admitting that your opinions are informed by Ludwig Wittgens...