Polymath at Large

kw: book reviews, nonfiction, socialism, welfare It was reported in passing in a National Geographic article that people in some Third Wo...

kw: photo essays, home maintenance, repairs, diy I was sick with a bad cough and recurring fever for about a week, the longest bout of ...

kw: blogs, blogging, spider scanning Just for the record: somebody/ies in Russia has kicked up blog scanning for about a week now.

kw: blogs, blogging, spider scanning The net spiders sourced in Russia have been quite for about a year. Over the past day or so, they...

kw: natural history, natural science, museums, research, photographs I have been in the midst of inventory of terrestrial snails of a larg...

kw: book reviews, nonfiction, privacy, surveys At a very early age we learn that the things people like and dislike differ. We learn that ...

kw: book reviews, nonfiction, health, colon health, microbiome, therapies RePOOPulation — What a lovely word! Coined by Dr. Emma Allen-Ver...

kw: book reviews, nonfiction, addictions, technology When I saw the book Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business o...

kw: book reviews, nonfiction, medicine, medical research, critiques Research incentives are messed up, big time. So much so that Sturgeon...

kw: book reviews, nonfiction, sleep What a way to start the year! with a book about sleep. Michael McGirr, a former Jesuit priest, and a v...

kw: book reviews, science fiction, multiple genres I read through most of this book on an airplane from Phoenix to Philadelphia. Sometimes...

kw: book reviews, nonfiction, science, astrophysics, popular treatments What's not to like about Neil deGrasse Tyson? He has become th...

kw: book reviews, science fiction, space opera, child prodigies Fiction authors frequently write to explore. I first recognized this while...

kw: book reviews, nonfiction, scientific method, climate change, polemics Bill Nye is one of my all-time favorite people. The fact that I ...

kw: species summaries, natural history, natural science, museums, research, photographs For the current series of projects at the Delaware...

kw: book reviews, nonfiction, memoirs, soldiers, drones Brett Velicovich passed by a protest a few years ago. People were wearing or wavin...

kw: book reviews, nonfiction, media, social media, news, fake news, sharing Everything has a life cycle. I can't recall what I expecte...

kw: analysis, spectroscopy, lighting In the past few years we have tried several lower-wattage "bug lights" as an alternative to...