Polymath at Large

A guy in late middle age with many interests.

Wednesday, July 02, 2025

A lesson we are slow to learn

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 kw: book reviews, nonfiction, epidemiology, airborne pathogens When I saw the title, Airborne: The Hidden History of the Life we Breathe , ...
Sunday, June 22, 2025

Another naturalist, more yards

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 kw: book reviews, nonfiction, science, biology, naturalists, natural history, citizen science, cities When you think of Picnic Guests, what...
Monday, June 16, 2025

The naturalist in the yard

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 kw: book reviews, nonfiction, science, biology, naturalists, natural history, citizen science I took this picture in 2010, the first year I...
Tuesday, June 10, 2025

Spiders continue to spread

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 kw: blogs, blogging, spider scanning After a week of lower activity, scanning of this blog has leapt up again in the past two days. Here...
Monday, June 09, 2025

Poorly-known life in the largest habitat

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 kw: book reviews, nonfiction, science, oceanography, marine biology The Blue Sea Dragon is a beautiful creature, a type of sea slug. You wo...
Thursday, June 05, 2025

Artificial aliens?

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 kw: book reviews, nonfiction, science, biology, physics, cosmology, genetics, first contact To put Sara Imari Walker's last question fi...
Friday, May 30, 2025

Spiders multiply and spread out

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 kw: blogs, blogging, spider scanning After a lull, activity—views of my blog posts—has ramped up. I consider a view rate between 50 and 100...
Monday, May 26, 2025

DuPont and the Irish

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 kw: book reviews, nonfiction, history, historiography, dupont company, irish, immigrants, gunpowder, sociology Reading Black Powder, White ...
Thursday, May 22, 2025

ZEUS's thunderbolt

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 kw: articles, lasers, record setting An article yesterday in earth.com reports on a record-setting power level for "the most powerful...
Sunday, May 18, 2025

Doctor Doolittle attainable?

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 kw: book reviews, nonfiction, zoology, sociology, communication How do animals communicate? Why do they do so? What do they have to talk ab...
Friday, May 09, 2025

The bear facts

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 kw: book reviews, nonfiction, biology, natural history, bears This is a very unfortunate bear. It is an Asiatic Black Bear, also called a M...
Thursday, May 08, 2025

S.I. and the floating cat

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 kw: simulated intelligence, art generation I had Dall-E3 generate several images of a sumptuous parlor, including a piano and a sleeping ca...
Saturday, May 03, 2025

The rest of Pushcart gets better

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 kw: book reviews, story reviews, short stories, poems, collections I wrote in the prior post about the volume 2025 Pushcart Prize XLIX: Bes...
Sunday, April 27, 2025

Pushcart at the one-third point

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 kw: book reviews, story reviews, short stories, poems, collections The cover logo for each year's Pushcart Prize volume has a differen...
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