It’s an age of marvels(blog.plover.com)

408 points by pavel_lishin 2 years ago | 389 comments

Blog post by Mark Dominus imagining which modern inventions would or would not astonish Benjamin Franklin, from streetlights and the internet to Wikipedia and Moon landings.

Deciphering basmala(blog.plover.com)

77 points by lordgrenville 4 months ago | 25 comments

The shell and its crappy handling of whitespace(blog.plover.com)

108 points by JNRowe 3 years ago | 118 comments

Surnames from nicknames nobody has any more(blog.plover.com)

927 points by JNRowe 1 year ago | 430 comments

Blog post from The Universe of Discourse explaining English patronymic surnames derived from medieval nicknames, some of which are no longer in use.

Monads are like burritos (2009)(blog.plover.com)

84 points by ipnon 2 years ago | 98 comments

The Origin of Consciousness (2008)(blog.plover.com)

47 points by skm 2 months ago | 39 comments