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Why is it that certain eras attract our imagination more than others? I’ve got a Sherlock Holmes mystery on now. London in the 1880’s seems to be an extremely well-travelled area of the popular imagination, especially for mysteries. Then there’s the earlier Regency era for romances, and the middle ages for all sorts of adventures … Continue reading Eras
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Gee, I’m starting to think that I live in old-time Chicago, where all those dead people kept voting all the time. Power Line: Will the Election Be Stolen? In Ohio, likely to be the decisive state this year, Republicans have filed challenges to more than 35,000 newly-registered “voters.” These are individuials to whom letters were … Continue reading Local Pre-Election Fraud Detection
Technical skill is mastery of complexity while creativity is mastery of simplicity. — Christopher Zeeman, Catastrophe Theory, 1977
