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Echoes of Holy Wisdom

Posted on Thursday, March 5th, 2020 by Will Cox

What we can do with physics and math–and curiosity–is awe-inspiring. Natural light moving across the surfaces of marble and gold causes glitter that...

impulses/learning

Revisions Needed

Posted on Monday, March 4th, 2019 by Will Cox

It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so. Anonymous I came across, by way of a ...

Books

Dear Diary

Posted on Saturday, August 29th, 2009 by Will Cox

I’m reading George Orwell’s diary and Samuel Pepys’s diary one day at a time in Google Reader, as the entries are published. The two diaries a...

sadness

Bobby Dunbar

Posted on Monday, April 20th, 2009 by Will Cox

I’m listening again to This American Life‘s story “The Ghost of Bobby Dunbar.” The story is remarkably affecting, sad, and hard to imagi...

economics

Receipts

Posted on Wednesday, March 11th, 2009 by Will Cox

Well this is interesting. I was looking at the deficits in this table, and noticed something: the receipts. That, and the title clearly says from T. Roosevelt, ...

Books

Logistical Speculation

Posted on Sunday, March 1st, 2009 by Will Cox

I’ve just started John Keegan’s The First World War, on a topic of which I know little other than the abbreviated, over-simplified summary found in ...