Dort, wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen."--Heinrich Heine, saying that if people burn books, they'll burn people, too, which have been proven to be the case. Usually this ...

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Up next in the expanding WORDLErama of creating FOUND WORD ART by dumping text blocks into the glorious WORDLE wonder-engine is my page devoted to the chronology of modern particle physics (1895-1995) ...

The location, according to the article, is Lynchville, Maine, which is about 50 miles northeast of Portland.

This aircraft not only moved, but flew: Source: the 1907 Philips flying machine, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatio_Frederick_Phillips Offhand it seems to be the ...

The history of the power of words is long and complex, and for the most part is on one side or the other of the political and social mirror, at least in the United States. Controlling the meaning of a ...

Rare, scarce, interesting, and unusual books for sale, mostly in the history of physics, math, and technology. The bookstore site is part of a larger daily blog for the History of Holes, Dots, Lines, ...

[Image source: Science Museum Group http://collectionsonline.nmsi.ac.uk/detail.php?type=related&kv=8015861&t=objects] I was looking at this trade card for the optical ...

Nicolas de Larmessin (1640-1725) was an enormously creative and productive artist, and in his way created a genre similar to the great and ancient Dance of Death/.Danse Macabre/Totentanz--though his ...

Lewis Carroll created a lovely, simple cipher in the midst of his Alice and Snark and Logic and Sylvie publications. It really is just a simple bit of polyalphabetic substitution, bu tit gets the job ...

[With thanks to Andrea Pitzer for surfacing this map today, and also to Slate Vault's Rebecca Onion for the story on the map, here.] All that I've done below is post some of the detail of the Library ...

Three wonderful images of the future, brought to the viewer via the tobacco trading cards interests in the 1920's--a future that could very well have been denied by the user of the product that ...