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Adventures in Wikipedia

Chapter 2 of James C Scott’s famous book Seeing Like a State has a quote at the top attributed to a fictional writer who was invented by Borges in his...

The Tangle

all of humandom is a tangled mane all burrs and matted intractable. any single knot would pick right out  if we could find the ends and hold on but we...

Good Inside

Notes on an interesting book about child-rearing

On Head Pain

Turns out the same thing that broke my back broke my head

The Poem Fairy

Three short stories about a poem fairy

Intuitive Baking

Second in a multi part series about how to misuse your kitchen