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Jun 03

The Railroad Was There All Along

Harry Lee Williams was born in August 1885 in Honey Creek Township, White County, Indiana. The son of Thornton Robert Williams and Ida May Adams, Harry was raised in...

May 28

A New Tartan

There is a special joy in designing something new that still feels old. A coat of arms has this property: rooted in tradition, yet reinterpreted through the choices of its...

May 26

The Electoral College was Designed to Disenfranchise

Every four years, Americans are reminded that they do not elect the president directly. They vote for electors, members of something called the Electoral College, who cast the real...

May 15

How to Design a Tartan

Tartans carry the weight of tradition. They are imagined as ancient patterns, clan-bound, Highland-tested, and restricted to those who can trace their ancestry back to some moor or glen. The...

May 12

Seventy-Three Cents of Civilization

The United States Postal Service is one of the most quietly extraordinary systems in modern life. It is not magical or divine. It works because hundreds of thousands of...

May 08

Using Median Polish

Exploratory data analysis often faces challenges due to outliers and skewed distributions, which can distort underlying patterns. Many conventional statistical methods depend on means, making them highly sensitive to extreme...

Mar 30

The History of the Vidames

Among the half-remembered titles of the medieval world, few are more peculiar than the vidame. A word no longer in currency, even among most students of nobility, the vidame occupied...

Mar 08

Vaccines Do Work

Recently, I encountered a comment that was just dead wrong:

If 100% of people got a vaccine, people would still get whatever they were vaccinated for. If they were...

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