Happy Groundhog Day! –Geoff
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Speaking of the struggle of Romantic poets vs. vampires, there is no finer book to read on the subject than The Stress of Her Regard. This book is one of the densest I have ever read. It is an excellent […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Euler is so hard on himself. I think that is historically accurate. –Geoff
Also, sometime soon, I’m going to start tinkering around with some of the infrastructure of the site. I have this idea that I can put a script in our cron job that will e-mail updates to a posterous account and […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When in doubt, do it for SCIENCE! –Geoff
It is the birthday of both Emmy Noether and Werhner von Braun today!! Neat!
Episode 300 is only 48 hours away! –Geoff
I just got an awesome note from one of the Frederick Faithful describing the work that they are doing right now on the oldest surviving piece of written music. It’s entirely fascinating, so if you’ve even a passing interest in […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
That’s a few episodes there… For those curious, here are some of the fine Voltaire Chateau Events that Frederick is reminiscing about! Episode 12: Rampant 18th Century Diplomacy Episode 32: The Coolidge Cube Arrives Episode 105: Abepoleon Bonaparte Episode 182: […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Oh, Theodora. Either a great, early figure in feminism and the last great ruler of the Roman Empire or, if we go by Procopius, the biggest slutty slut in slut-town who, arm in arm with the hopelessly corrupt Justinian, went […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…