Showing posts with label Recapping. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Recapping. Show all posts
Sunday, November 5, 2023

The Early Iron Age Revival of the State, XXIX: Lazy Sunday Outline with Premonitions of Mortality

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 Two things, first, a very late change of schedule; second, a scary moment at the Silver Kettle Lodge as my 92-year-old father seemed to be ...
Saturday, May 29, 2021

A Technological And Also Political Appendix to Postblogging Technology, February 1951

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  "Sabre Dance" is a movement of the final act of Khachaturian's Gayane (1942), crossing over to mainstream popularity in 1948...
Saturday, April 10, 2021

Robert Mundell is Dead: A Mixed-Economy Recap to December 1950 with a Look Forward Six Years

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  On the one hand, the (Canadian-born, UBC-educated) "Father of Supply Side Economics" died last week. On the other, December of 1...
Saturday, February 13, 2021

Sacred Spring: A Recap to February, 2021

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(Aeneas dumps Queen Dido, founder of Carthage, and goes off to found Rome instead, two separate ' Ver sacrum " episodes.) So she ki...
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Thursday, July 30, 2020

A Belated Technological Appendix for April, 1950: Sites and Things

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First impressions come when they come. I read G. C. Edmondson 's 1965 The Ship that Sailed the Time Stream and its sequel, 1981's T...
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Thursday, November 16, 2017

The Early Iron Age Revival of the State, II: How Far Can We Go? Collapses and Populations

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This material largely revisits earlier discussions, but if I restate, I hope that I do so more clearly, and lay down the cards upon which I...
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Saturday, November 11, 2017

Soap, Ash and Hope Chests: The Iron Age Revival of the State

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It was, perhaps, just before Year 1 of the New Era of Ramesses XI , the age of the Whm Mswt , the Era of the Renaissance, that the foreigne...
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Thursday, February 16, 2017

Recapping the Fall of Rome: Game of Thrones

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Lots of caption here, because credit where credit is due. This is Abdelratif Reda's fresh goat cheese, served with apricot jam on a ba...
Thursday, August 18, 2016

Recapping The Bishops' Sea

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I have a point when I talk about how the early settlement of the Atlantic took place in a "bishop's sea." It is, in the fir...
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Thursday, July 28, 2016

The British Army and the Fall of France: A Recap

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The winter of 1946 was like this But the spring of 1955 was like this I'd doff my hat to an old Simpsons reference, but I can...
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Friday, July 15, 2016

Recapping the Fall of the Roman Empire: The Cavalry Problem

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It's summer! God speed the plough! Unfortunately, with the hand of every good man and woman turned out to bring in the mangelwurzels an...
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Friday, July 1, 2016

Fall of Rome, A Recap, One: Honorius tells England That He's Invoking Article 50: Some Underappreciated but Scarcely Unknown Economic Aspects of the Problem. You'd Think.

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So you might have expected the second part of June techblogging about now. Up until 12:16, Tuesday afternoon, so did I. That...
Sunday, June 19, 2016

Planting America: A Recap

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Greek-style salt cod salad. Source When the library is on summer hours, it is probably not a good idea to hang around the apartment...
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Tuesday, April 5, 2016

Postblogging Technology, February, 1946, II: Colour of Money

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R._ C_., Chateau Laurier, Ottawa, Canada Dear Father: After hanging fire for so long, the Canadian espionage story has finally...
Friday, March 25, 2016

Flying Colours: Recapping Research and Development at Mid-Century

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Alvin Hansen famously said that one of the reasons that secular stagnation was happening was that technological innovation had stopped. In...
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Wednesday, March 2, 2016

Thirty-Eight Hours Versus Sixteen Tons: Recapping Government-Spending Driven Economic Growth in World War II

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Source : I nspiration This blog is not about public engagement. It made an exception for the Canadian election, because, well, it...
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Saturday, December 19, 2015

A Soldier From the Wars Returning: Recap, Part the Second, New Technology, New Jobs

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So I don't like doing this, but I lost another writing weekend this week, this time to eldercare issues: I'm going to see if I can ...
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