In the Middle

I met with an independent study student today about Sir Gowther. Without much luck, we tried to track Gowther's developing relations wi...

I have been nearly successful in upholding my vow not to stimulate a single neuron between December 24 and January 1. In years past a chunk ...

In Scenes from Deep Time: Early Pictorial Representations of the Prehistoric World , Martin J. S. Rudwick traces how Victorian illustrations...

In light of Jeffrey's recent trip, avec petit fils , to the Holocaust Museum in D.C., and with regard to our recent discussions on the l...

I'd gone to the British Museum early to get a look at the prehistoric section before the general public thronged the place. I filled my ...

Don't miss the vibrant tools discussion below. Go there first if you haven't already, and then, if you like, enjoy this long post f...

I cited some of my work on Cynocephali in this thread and felt compelled to share some more on dog-headed monsters. Does this have anything...

Today's Washington Post has an obituary essay by Adam Bernstein on the philosopher Richard Rorty, who died last Friday. An heir to Will...

In a thirteenth-century Latin poem on the Wonders of Ireland, immediately before a description of a man who lived headless for 7 years and a...

Just in time to intersect with the threads on humanism that have developed here and here arrive these letters from the New York Times edi...

[update 12/21: welcome visitors from BuzzFeed . You'll find quite a bit on this blog about interspecies relations by searching "ani...