Joan of Navarre, the witch-queen of England

September 3, 2022

Although not the first to be tried for witchcraft, Joan of Navarre has the distinction of being the first English Queen to be found guilty of it. She’s today’s profile on my Patreon.

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SciFi Friday — The Diamond Lens by Fitz-James O’Brien (1858) — Part 6

I arose the next morning almost at daybreak, and rushed to my microscope, I trembled as I sought the luminous world in miniature that contained my all. Animula was there. I had left the gas-lamp, surrounded by its moderators, burning when I went to bed

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In the (Digital) Swarm

Byung-Chul Han is a contemporary German philosopher born in Korea whose work explores the transformation of subjectivity, power, and social relations in late modern and digital societies. In the Swarm fits within this broader inquiry, focusing specifically on the effects of digital communication on perception,

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architecture, engineering and construction

One can easily say Dynamo

1. Prologue: The Add-On Debate (or, a False Choice) 1.1 “Use an Add-On” vs “Everyone Should Code” There are two stock answers that reliably surface whenever automation in BIM is mentioned: The second one is disarmingly simple: spend those five bucks and just use an

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