Polymath at Large

 kw: book reviews, nonfiction, neurology, medicine, memoirs A medical student begins losing her sight, but at first cannot tell; eventually ...

 kw: book reviews, nonfiction, history, history of photography, nineteenth century, sociology, photographers From about 1826 until 1839, tak...

 kw: blogs, blogging, spider scanning, AI training I checked on the blog just now, and saw that the view rate more than doubled in the past ...

 kw: book reviews, nonfiction, archaeology, glaciology, ice-patch archaeology There are about 200,000 mountain glaciers worldwide, not count...

 kw: book reviews, nonfiction, mini-biographies, evil men, evil In Dante's Inferno , most murderers are found in the seventh circle of H...

 kw: book reviews, story reviews, fiction, anthologies, short stories After reading most of The Best American Short Stories 2025 , edited by...

 kw: blogs, blogging, spider scanning, AI training For the past three days the number of daily views has been around 2,000 rather than 20,00...

 kw: book reviews, nonfiction, memoirs, cancer, cancer survival, cancer treatment Beating cancer takes a powerful team. Of course, we need d...

 kw: book reviews, fiction, short stories, anthologies, humor I created this image using the Flux Schnell engine in Leonardo AI, as a riff o...

 kw: book reviews, nonfiction, photo essays, millennials, mini-biographies This picture, taken twenty years ago, shows my father getting tip...

 kw: blogs, blogging, spider scanning, AI training Before Noon today (5/13) I checked the stats and saw that today and the previous four day...

 kw: blogs, blogging, spider scanning, AI training The past two days this blog's activity has been in the range of 20,000 views daily. S...

 kw: book reviews, nonfiction, anthropology, paleoanthropology, essays We could wish more finds were like this. By far the most frequent dis...

 kw: book reviews, story reviews, science fiction, anthologies, collections, short stories As I have mentioned before, most of the books I r...