Last day of September; tomorrow is October!  I love October, one of my favorite months.  Fall is really here!  Actually should probably be called "autumn," which seems like it should mean "serious...

Still just trying to surf the wave of the semester's chaos; when I think I see a calm spot up ahead, so far I've invariably been mistaken.  Anyway, some cool stuff I've found:

Academic publishing...

It's been an unusually exhausting week.  Semester weeks are always busy, but this one seems a bit more than usual.  I participated in a conference late Thursday and all day Friday, and normally that's...

Just a few things here, nothing big.

Since I grew up in Saudi Arabia, and love paleontology, this article about paleontology in Saudi Arabia was doubly interesting for me.  But it should be for...

Just a few links, to keep you off the street today, keep you out of trouble.

Joseph Brodsky’s family’s Leningrad residence—you cannot really say “apartment,” it was only a part of an apartment, as...

Here's a small older essay on browsing.  I agree with it.

How do we deal with the issue of where we get our accidental discoveries? This piece, that talks about browsing in bookstores, has one idea...

I've been listening to a lot more podcasts over the pandemic, particularly on long walks, or when I'm wandering the mountains around my house, looking for interesting stones.  (More on that at some...

A pictorial history (partial history) of the Corner at UVA.  Many memories here; I arrived in 1997, so one of the pics is from that year, strange to think about part of my life being “history,” but...

Hard to believe it was twenty years ago.  I've heard a couple podcasts where people are talking about this, then they admit they were in kindergarten, or ten years old, when it happened.  That seems...

A bit more overcast where I am today, but happily only in outer, not inner, weather.  (Shoutout to Robert Frost, there.)  A pretty restful day, though I could have been more deliberate about it.

For...