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WBH Weekly Digest 2023-06-30: The Fantasy Canon

WBH Weekly Digest 2023-06-30: The Fantasy Canon

I'm back from a work trip, a family wedding, and a family vacation. On with the posting! A thread about the long history of Conan as a character, and the various reasons for his complicated publishing history. Spider-Man Has Lost His Place - Front Porch RepublicSpider-Man now devalues

Klein organizations

Klein organizations

In a Weekly Digest in April, I posted a link to Explaining Tech's Notion of Talent Scarcity. In my head, I implicitly linked this to Burton Klein's classification of firms: Type 1: “Happy warrior rationality” is associated with ideological outbreeding and is commonly employed in making

No, You Can't Be an Astronaut 2023 Edition is Free on Amazon

In 2018 I reviewed the book No, You Can’t Be an Astronaut, written under the pseudonym Patience Fairweather, Ph.D. That book is now on its fourth edition, and the author E. G. de Pillis, is willing to shed her pseudonymity. You can pick up the book for free

Out of Office

Linkfest 2021-03-26: Trigun Edition

. . . And Between the Wasteland & Sky JD Cowan masterfully analyzes the Catholic themes in Trigun Made in China Razib Khan looks at the history of China and various governments actions in Xinjiang. Appendix N Connection: The Origin of Shadows in the D&D Game How a classic story by

Reskilling America: Learning to Labor in the Twenty-First Century by Katherine S. Newman and Hella Winston Book Review

Another negative book review from me. For Reskilling America: Learning to Labor in the Twenty-first Century by Katherine S. Newman and Hella Winston [Amazon link], the problem is not a lack of research, but rather that the book, like American society in general, has no real way to grapple with

Linkfest 2018-07-30

The images from today's linkfest are Frank Frazetta illustrations of the Lord of the Rings. Frazetta was a prolific illustrator of comics, book covers, album covers, and paintings. His style is instantly recognizable to any fan of science fiction and fantasy, and perhaps is the epitome of SFF