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January 2015

January 30, 2015

7QT: Faces back from the dead, Anxieties outside your head

Don't forget, if you're in the Bay Area, that I'll be speaking at St....

January 23, 2015

7QT: Terrifying Fish, Lightning-Quick Archers (and some cussin’)

Two housekeeping notes: you can still vote for me in the "Smartest Blog" category in...

January 16, 2015

7QT: Math Puns, Set Tricks, and Artificial Worlds

Just a reminder, my new radio show ("Fights in Good Faith") began last week (and...

January 09, 2015

7QT: My new radio program, plus codes, calligraphy, and camels

--- 1 --- I'm really pleased to announce to all of you, that tomorrow, I...

January 02, 2015

Seven Quick Remixes: Shakespeare, Star Wars, and Sweeney!

--- 1 --- I'm sure I'll write something longer later, but I just want to...

December 2014

December 19, 2014

7QT: Building Imaginary Bridges, Destroying Phantom Boats

--- 1 --- I'm totally delighted by these mischievous bridges. Euro notes apparently each feature a picture...

December 12, 2014

7QT: Beautifully Built Things

--- 1 --- I always take pleasure in thinking about made things, so I especially...

December 05, 2014

My 10 Best Books of 2014

Every year, I like to make a list of my favorite books I read for the...

November 2014

November 21, 2014

7QT: Time, Taylor Swift, and other deeply philosophical matters

--- 1 --- Ok, move fast readers! The NYT is doing a wacky contest to supply...

November 14, 2014

7QT: Artful Illusion and Clever Construction

--- 1 --- I totally understand if you read the first take here and then...

November 07, 2014

7QT: Tallying Rats, Robbing Houses, and Judging Barbers

--- 1 --- I know we're all done with Halloween, but I wanted to share...

October 2014

October 31, 2014

7QT: Costuming, Conspiracy, and Counterfeiting

--- 1 --- Guys, I have some exciting news. Here's how I feel about what...

October 24, 2014

7QT: Disease Fighters, State Dividers, and Programming

--- 1 --- Heads up, New York City (or nearabouts) readers! Eve Tushnet, author of Gay...

October 17, 2014

7QT: Community, Codes, and Canadian Smugglers

--- 1 --- Exciting news, everyone! Eve Tushnet's first book, Gay and Catholic: Accepting My Sexuality,...

October 10, 2014

7QT: Devil in the Details (of stings, languages, and surgery)

--- 1 --- Happy Sukkot, to any readers who are celebrating! Here's a delightfully silly...

October 03, 2014

7QT: Surprises, Subterfuge, and 200 lbs of LARPing Meat

--- 1 --- There's no way this feature on a live-action Oregon Trail game wasn't...

September 2014

September 26, 2014

7QT: Submarines, Alchemy, and Pious AI

--- 1 --- While we've discussing the virtues of counterfactual history, I ran across this...

September 19, 2014

7QT: The Hat of Scotland and the Sleeves of Me

--- 1 --- Happy Absence-of-Scottish-Independence Day! Perhaps you would like to celebrate/mourn by learning more...

September 12, 2014

7QT: Brutalism and Book Covers

--- 1 --- This Grantland profile of water parks is (as far as I can remember)...

September 05, 2014

7QT: Reasonable Answers to Patently Crazy Questions

--- 1 --- My copy of Randall Munroe's What If: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical...

August 2014

August 29, 2014

7QT: Delighting in the Details

--- 1 --- After I wrote about seeing Macbeth last week, my mother sent me...

August 22, 2014

7QT: Hidden Messages, Legal Ghosts, and Tenuous Alliances

--- 1 --- There's no way, once I saw this part of Terry Pratchett's interview...

August 15, 2014

7QT: Answers to Questions I Didn’t Think to Ask

--- 1 --- When I was in school, it wasn't uncommon for my teachers to...

August 08, 2014

7QT: Flipped Journals, Fake Football, and Finite Tragedy

--- 1 --- I've gotten to coast on my university's JSTOR access for alums, but...

August 01, 2014

7QT: Necromancy, Vaccination, Love, and other high stakes games

--- 1 --- In the course of promoting his new book, Full Fathom Five, Max Gladstone...

July 2014

July 25, 2014

7QT: A Heroic Nurse, Ingenious Organs, and Popstar!Nietzsche

--- 1 --- I wanted to make sure that if you read only one of...

July 18, 2014

Strange Changes in Beasts and Bookstores

--- 1 --- You still have time this weekend to watch Merrily We Roll Along this...

July 11, 2014

7QT: Cakes, Corpses, and Cyclones

--- 1 --- I've been back stateside for a week, but I've still been doing...

July 04, 2014

Dispatches from Irish Prisons, Pubs, etc

--- 1 --- My favorite part of my trip to Ireland avec ma mère occurred...

June 2014

June 27, 2014

Strange Cricket Pairings and Invisible Classes

--- 1 --- I can't believe I have two entertaining cricket links to share this week....