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From the Vault

Recently, I bought the Chronological Donald Volume 4 from Disney. There are some of my favorite Donald Duck cartoons on that DVD, ones that I watched over and over growing up. However, there are also Donald Duck cartoons "from the Vault" on these DVDs. I'm guessing

Full Meridian of Glory

Full Meridian of Glory by Paul Murdin Copernicus Books 187 pages; $27.50 Paul Murdin's Full Meridian of Glory is a weighty tome. It is not particularly long, but it is very dense, both in the hand and in the mind. The book itself is beautiful heavy paper,

Rethinking the Iron Age

An interesting pre-print out of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Ancient Blacksmiths, the Iron Age, Damascus Steels, and Modern Metallurgy. There is at least a possibility that the Neaderthals could have made wrought iron. The process is quite doable, you simply put iron oxide in an open hearth in a windy

No Time for Words from Those with Nothing to Say

Favorite Authors: Kipling

Among my favorite authors assuredly belongs Kipling, the engineer's poet. Kipling is often derided as an imperialist, but he was both popular and critically acclaimed in his day. His use of dialect is part of the reason he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, but also for

What is a Moderate Muslim?

Timothy Furnish wrote an excellent article for the History News Network on Divide and Couquer in Islam. Furnish wrote a book on millennialism in Islam that I have used for one of my lectures on millennialism. He is one of the most knowledgeable and straightforward writers on Islam, and what

Hukt awn Fonix Wurked fur Mee

Courtesy of the National Right to Read Foundation, a report on the differences between phonics and whole language methods of teaching children to read. The report lays blame for increasing illiteracy on constructivist, whole language methods of teaching. Very interesting, although perhaps a bit intemperate. Just for balance, here is