Menin aeide, thea, Peleiadeo Achileos / oulomenen...

It just sets my spine a-tingling.

The word of the day is "proparoxytone".

(It is not the molecule of the day, although it sounds like it should be.)

Anthropoisi gar
tois pasi koinon esti touxamartanein:
epei d' hamartei, keinos ouket' est' aner
aboulos oud' anolbos, hostis es kakon
peson aketai med' akinetos pelei.

- Teiresias, Antigone, Sophocles

Happy Pi Day!

Happy birthday, Ellen!

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It's a private university, so they have the right, but it seems like banning as mainstream a play as the Vagina Monologues can only bring bad press.

( You're probably sick of hearing about this topic, so I cut it for your convenience )

Dave Itzkoff hits exactly why I like The Hobbit better than The Return of the King, and why I like A New Hope better than The Phantom Menace.