My father told me a story once about a Dutch mathematician working in the Netherlands under the Nazi occupation. He was constructing a large...

According to a machine I have been running the archives through, over 4.3 million words have been written in posts here at Grim's Hall. ...

I had actually managed half a century on earth without conceptually connecting women and tofu , aside from the fact that no one I know eats ...

If your back isn't broken, if your feet can walk, if both arms can bend, if both eyes can see, if both ears hear, then whom should you e...

AVI linked a post by Earl Wajenberg  that examines the treatment of slavery in various parts and eras of Biblical society. While his thrust ...

Today I have no good pictures; the rains came in heavy last night and the whole day was grey even when it wasn't pouring. However, I did...

A pretty morning to be out in the world. 

No good can come of anything, I tell you. Reflecting on the rise of international trade and finance, former U.S. President Woodrow Wilson ...

Locally, the primary election was mostly a disappointment. My preferred candidate did win the sheriff's race, but in all the other racer...

In Farsi , no less. These can be broadcast in the clear because the code used is provably unbreakable . Indeed, there are two separate mathe...

On the subject of chivalric romance,  the BBC writes on a famous painting by Sir Frederic William Burton . It is based on a Medieval Danish...

One of my several professional duties has to do with AI. I set up an 'Open Brain' and uploaded to it both my dissertation  and my n...

Marco Rubio -- Secretary of Many Things -- briefed the "Gang of 8" Congresscritters about the war on Iran the same day that the Pr...

He said to them , “From this hour, whoever has a money bag should take it and thus also a wallet, and whoever lacks a sword, let him sell hi...

I have no idea how accurate this summary of the current U.S./Israel surgical-strike cabability is. It sounds plausible to me, an amateur, b...

In an appearance on FOX, my old friend has a few thoughts . 

With the current American/Israeli attack on Iran (I hesitate to call such a one-sided affair a war), I have a concern. In the particular cas...

Top of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, right on the Tennessee/North Carolina border.  Pretty ride today, this last day of February....

Some years back I quoted an old friend's song , him being a former Navy SEAL, that he'd written for the Society of Creative Anachro...