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Dave Wilton

Dec 17, 2023 • 1 min read

Frontispiece from Josiah King’s 1658 The Examination and Tryall of Old Father Christmas

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protactinium (paid)

Jul 5, 2024 2 min read

promethium

Promethium, a chemical element in the lanthanide series with atomic number 61 and the symbol Pm, may very well be the element with the dubious honor of having the most names attached to it. It is radioactive and extremely rare in nature. Only one isotope of promethium has uses beyond

Jul 5, 2024 4 min read

Calvinball

(Recent US Supreme Court decisions have brought this post, originally published on 2 May 2019, to mind.) Calvinball is the name of a fictional sport coined by cartoonist Bill Watterston in his syndicated comic strip Calvin and Hobbes. In the strip, Calvinball is a sport where the participants make up

Jul 4, 2024 3 min read

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