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• Coming out of Melancholy, Again

  

  I've written about my propensity to lapse into a melancholy state periodically, seemingly during the winter months, something I've reported on at length in an... Read more

  The 06 February 2026 by   Bbenzon
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• Hip-hop & Violence, Misogeny, Etc.– From Shared Knowledge to Common Knowledge

  

  I'm copying this from Marginal Revolution (Tyler Cowen), which quotes a Roland Fryer piece in the Wall Street Journal: In a TED Talk released on Monday, I... Read more

  The 04 February 2026 by   Bbenzon
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• Reading Group - Gibson (1979) The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception

  

  Rob, Marianne, and I had so much fun with the Turvey (2019) reading group that we decided to keep going, and we decided to return to the source - Gibson's 1979... Read more

  The 16 February 2026 by   Andrew D Wilson
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• Medium, Substances, Surfaces (Gibson, 1979, Chapter 2)

  

  In this chapter, Gibson continues to lay out the rules of the environment (vs the physical world). In physics, there are objects in spaces, but this simply... Read more

  The 16 February 2026 by   Andrew D Wilson
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• Mark Twain on New England Weather, Illustrations by ChatGPT

  

  New England Weather was anthologized in The Literary World Seventh Reader, John Calvin Metcalf, editor (1919). Twain's essay is accompanied by James Russell... Read more

  The 19 February 2026 by   Bbenzon
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