I'm starting my rewatch with Captain America: The First Avenger as the earliest story in the Marvel Cinematic Universe timeline, even though it was the fifth MCU film to be released. For a list of the

Two years ago I discovered this amazing video series discussing the IsraelPalestine conflict. Over a series of eight short videos it explained the pertinent history of the region, contentious events, and

This summer my wife and I took a cruise through Greece. When I travel I try to read quality books from the place I'm visiting to try to get a feel for the culture and its mindset. As is my wont, I bought

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. — Ralph Waldo Emerson People who know me do not think of me as a particularly enthusiastic person. For one thing, I'm a Libra, and if you know anything

Years ago I stumbled upon the existence of Esperanto, an auxiliary language invented in the late 1880s to facilitate international communication. I was intrigued by its large body of original literature

My parents were pastors so I grew up in a very religious household. Although I liked the scholarly nature of bible study, religious belief has never sat well with me. Although my early adulthood was just

The definition of stupidity, according to Cipolla Carlo Cipolla was an Italian economic history professor at Berkeley, who adhered to a funny tradition among Italian academics, which is to write humorous

I'm fairly new to Steemit. I've posted about 20 times in the last couple weeks since I joined, with a mix of longer posts and some shorter posts in which I joined meme and writing contests. I've resteemed

The first half of the 20th century was a heady time for language learning and study. The field of philology (now commonly called historical linguistics) was at its zenith. Much of the evolution of the

This was a new one for me. Visiting friends in Norfolk, I learned something that would never occur to me in a million years. It seems it is a thing to steal lead from church roofs. This beautiful St. Mary's

This week Storj, the distributed cloud storage project, announced that they will migrate their token to Ethereum. The Storj token (SJCX) was issued on the Counterparty platform in 2014. Problems caused

I'm familiar with Walter Block from Mises Institute-sponsored lectures on their YouTube channel. I like him and agree with many of his arguments, which makes negatively reviewing this book something of

Ever since I got my Literati ereader, I've been reading quite bit. I always was an avid reader as a child but my reading has taken a hit in recent times, so pretty much I've only been reading for school,

In describing his process of writing the Chronicles of Narnia, C. S. Lewis wrote that "you must not believe all that authors tell you about how they wrote their books" ("It All Began with a Picture" in

Did you know that Freebitco.in, the popular Bitcoin faucet and dice game, now pays interest on your account balance? This could be a great way to generate some extra revenue from that cache of Bitcoin

March 25th is Tolkien Reading Day, a day started by the Tolkien Society to celebrate the written works of J.R.R. Tolkien. I've been a fan of Tolkien since the late 1980s when I first read The Hobbit and

There are plenty of reasons, why you should learn a new language. Some are more obvious than others. I don't want to go into the neurological part too deeply - for simplicity let's just assume, that learning

I studied Latin formally for two semesters during my Masters program using the famous textbook Wheelock's Latin. This textbook is the standard throughout universities in the US. But, I had studied Latin

On the heels of my review of C.S. Lewis' The Discarded Image and the concept of "True Myth" which I mentioned there, I've decided to post something I wrote a while back about secular humanism

A few general comments and then I will expound at length about my quibbles. First, this book is a phenomenal introduction to what Lewis calls the "Medieval Model"--the medieval world view. This should