The Instrument

Posted on Jan 27, 2026 in blog • Tagged with creative, nonfiction

An atom relaxes …


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Honesty

Posted on Dec 31, 2025 in blog • Tagged with creative, nonfiction, du-lingva, angla-lingva

Complete honesty …


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Christmas in Biloxi

Posted on Dec 29, 2025 in blog • Tagged with creative, nonfiction, du-lingva, angla-lingva

Christmas Eve at the quarter century, a fog lay thick and expectant across the bay, draping out over the city with whom it shares a name—an eldritch and unnatural thing in the unseasonal warmth, one that could well have concealed most anything. The living land is bounded by two …


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Kumbaya

Posted on Nov 25, 2025 in blog • Tagged with creative, nonfiction

Every day and from every corner …


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RSS

Posted on Sep 10, 2025 in blog • Tagged with nonfiction

A website is an oyster in which RSS is the pearl.


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A True Ghost Story

Posted on Oct 31, 2024 in blog • Tagged with creative, nonfiction, du-lingva, angla-lingva

My first Mardi Gras was 20 years ago, on my birthday—New Orleans being a place that truly embraces the spirit of my birthday—and for some time, from within a crowd across the street, just after dusk had given way to night; I saw, then watched, the ghostly-blue visage …


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Brexit, Reformation, and Secession

Posted on Jan 19, 2024 in blog • Tagged with nonfiction

Politics.


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The Zen of Ohm

Posted on Jan 10, 2024 in blog • Tagged with creative, nonfiction

Brief remark on the significance of perspective as viewed through electricity.


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Kristnakso en Anglio, Blackwood (1890)

Posted on Dec 21, 2023 in ebooks • Tagged with book, du-lingva, esperanto-lingva, angla-lingva, nonfiction, blackwood

Describes old-fashioned English Christmas customs.


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Collected Works of Algernon Blackwood

Posted on Sep 24, 2022 in ebooks • Tagged with book, fiction, nonfiction, blackwood

Algernon Blackwood was a prolific, popular, and influential writer, often associated with “weird fiction” …


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Things Do Indeed Bite Back

Posted on Dec 06, 2021 in blog • Tagged with nonfiction

Analysis of 'Why Things Bite Back' by Edward Tenner.


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The Shared Philosophy of the Scientific Revolution

Posted on Oct 04, 2021 in blog • Tagged with nonfiction

Analysis of philosophy at the time of the Scientific Revolution.


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Wergild

Posted on Jul 26, 2021 in blog • Tagged with nonfiction

A Medieval Approach to Cadaveric Organ Donation

This document proposes a novel approach to cadaveric organ donation intended to reduce the “ongoing imbalance between demand and supply of organs” (Prabhu, 2019) and demonstrates that it is ethical. The name “Wergild” derives from the Germanic practice of paying a family compensation …


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Tanning Beds

Posted on Oct 20, 2009 in blog • Tagged with nonfiction

One small step can go a long way in protecting American girls from radiogenic skin cancer.

Almost half of all cancers occur on the skin making the skin the most common site of cancer induction.[1] Ultraviolet light is the dominant cause of skin cancer [2] and this disease is …


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