What a beautiful photo! The article made me hope immediately that, in the Lord of the Rings, the ravine that the Road descends just before reaching the Ford of Bruinen was, in fact, a holloway.

But, alas, no—the text says it’s merely a ‘cutting’.

I still hope it looked mostly just like that photo.

If you haven't ready any Megan Kate Nelson, then I’ll happily recommend her finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in history, _The Three-Cornered War_.

(Or: it’s fun to hear the author read _We Had a Little Real Estate Problem_, if you haven't read it yet: the history of Native Americans in comedy.)

Can confirm!

In the opening sentences, it seemed to be telling me that "Italy is a part of Europe", but now, two dozen chapters in, its Latin sentences—with subordinate clauses—are explaining that pasturing sheep was more profitable in Italy, because Africa was driving down the cost of grain.

‘You should always try to make the patient abandon the people or food or books he really likes in favour of the “best” people, the “right” food, the “important” books.’

As though AI were now in its Medieval Period of splaying limbs and arbitrary joints, waiting for some future AI Michelangelo to finally come along and do some decent anatomy. “How knees work.”

That’s a neat idea to better foreground New York’s role in the Revolution!

Does the site include a map of its route somewhere? Or, if I'm curious about the route, will I need to look up each of the destinations in turn on Google Maps?

But I’ve never tried to design real-world burns for an intercept orbit, or anything else. Not, alas, my field. From what I understand, your interest here is how much fuel and time it would take for one satellite to be diverted to collide with another? 2/2

I have adjusted orbits before in Kerbal Space Program, and it surprised me how often my intuition was unhelpful in trying to design a burn. (Thus, I suppose, the Armstrong quote in First Man, "It's backwards from what they teach you as a pilot, but if you work the math, it follows.") 1/

The first test of an implosion nuclear bomb was almost a full month earlier than Nagasaki: the Trinity test at the White Sands Proving Ground.

That sounds familiar! In his recent book "The Cutting-Off Way", Wayne E. Lee describes a Native hunter killing a deer, then returning home and lighting a pipe — his part is done. He calmly informs his wife of where he felled it. She and her friends head into the woods to dress and process it.