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The Odysseus Unbound saga continues Where is the Ithaca of Homer, home to Odysseus? This has been a point of contention, since today’s Ithaki bears little resemblance to Homer’s description...
September 5, 2008 What do you pack for a journey around the world? Well, if the year is 1831, guns. Lots of them. Charles Darwin wrote his sister Susan 177 years ago tomorrow with a packing list for the...
Salman Rushdie. Noam Chomsky. That guy from “Stuff White People Like.” And now Future Imperfect author David Friedman has journeyed to Mountain View, California to appear on Authors@Google. It’s...
Thank you, CBS News. On their Political Animal blog, find the whole run-down of contradictions in last night's speech.
Marci Hamilton has fought for the abolishment of statutes of limitations [SOL] pertaining to childhood sexual abuse. The SOLs limit the time that the abused have to take an abuser to court. They usually...
Contest #1 Update: This is week #1’s puzzle. Click here for the current one! We’re giving away copies of the first two editions of Martin Gardner’s New Mathematical Library for the next...
Author David D. Friedman isn't impressed with a lot of what gets slung around. He's also someone, thankfully, with a nuanced look at both candidates. For him, both the critics of Palin and the adoration of Obama need to be deflated.
Daddy! I wanna go on the boat! The fateful decision is made September 1: Charles Darwin will indeed sail on the Beagle. Here’s some back-and-forth between Charles, his father, and Francis Beaufort,...
I had never heard about this incident before. The Beatles were booked for a 1965 concert in Israel, but organizers were denied permission to pay them (in foreign currency), canceling the show because “The...
Wow. They had a lot of issues, didn’t they? My favorite that I’ve read so far A lot of sites are chattering about the article in this month’s Atlantic on Hillary Clinton’s campaign. Joshua...
August 27, 2008 David D. Friedman has a resume that will make your head spin, but at its nexus are Law, Economics, and Technology. Liberty Watch Radio interviewed him on August 24, discussing his latest...
Rick Kleffel is an independent producer with NPR, and has interviewed a remarkable range of figures, and reviewed a massive amount of books. You can view his work here. He recently sat down with Charles...
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