Wednesday, June 22, 2016

Postblogging Technology, May 1946, I: Baby Boom!

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My Dear Doctor B: Please again accept my thanks for your hospitality during my recent, all too brief stay. I have included a sma...
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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Wednesday, June 8, 2016

Nimrod Was a Mighty Hunter: The 1940 Land Warfare Counterfactual

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The substance of this counterfactual is pretty simple. If I adopt one simple rule: that the BEF is equipped with standard 1945-era equipmen...
Friday, June 3, 2016

Wild Mountain Thyme: Roman Fall, Byzantine Failure to Rise

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It is going to be 30 degrees in Vancouver this weekend, time enough to think about the cool, high mountains of summer. Oh, and in the...
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Saturday, May 28, 2016

Postblogging Technology, April 1946, II: British Turboencabulators Are Less Powerful Than American, And Not So Well Finished As German

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Dear Dr. B: Enclosed are family photographs sized as you suggested for my father-in-law's rooms. Thank you for letting me continue ...
Saturday, May 21, 2016

Postblogging Technology, April 1946, I: Coming Home

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My Dear Dr. B_: I am told that my father-in-law is a returning patient, and that you have strict rules about the kind of communicat...
Friday, May 13, 2016

A Wizard Did It! The Fall of Rome, VI

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Is the fall of the Roman Empire all down to monetary policy? Given Aurelian's precedent-setting method of dealing with central bank ind...
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