Things Have Changed

Spring training has started.  The world reawakens.  And over at Bill James Online , Daniel Marks has written a lovely piece summarizing ...

  February 25, 1837, San Antonio, Republic of Texas Precisely a year earlier, on February 25, 1836, Captain Juan Seguin left the besieged ...

An engineering drought Althouse as conservative  IRS Structuring Fair value estimates Progressivism becomes conservatism

Chris Thomas King performing Hard Time Killing Floor Blues , which he originally did in the film O Brother, Where Art Thou?   Composed and ...

I sometimes write and read with the sound of the TV low in the background.  A few weeks ago, a movie had just started on TCM when I heard th...

You cannot accurately represent the global of the Earth on a flat map.  The most common flat map projections grossly overestimate the size o...