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Linkfest 2021-08-20: More Science Than You're Used To
DarwinCatholic: COVID Death Trends: The Young and the Old Are Okay Now
My internet friend Brendan Hodge at Darwin Catholic shows us with CDC mortality data that the old and the young have largely returned to the pre-COVID trends. Well, the young never really left it. For those 65+ years
Dungeon Samurai Book Review
Dungeon Samurai Volume 1: Kamikaze
by Cheah Kit Sun
Published May 28, 2019
Dungeon Samurai is an isekai dungeon-crawler built on the principle that “amateurs talk tactics, professionals talk logistics”.
Depending on where you are coming from, that might be a lot to unpack, so let’s go through it.
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
The Long View: Tokugawa America
Tokugawa Japan is one of the more remarkable societies that have ever developed. It produced most of the culture that both we Americans and the Japanese find distinctive, and managed to be relatively stable and resistant to the outside world for nearly 250 years. When the outside world finally barged
Sword of the Legion: Galaxy's Edge #5 Book Review
Sword of the Legion: Galaxy's Edge #5
by Jason Anspach and Nick Cole
Kindle Edition, 332 pages
Published October 25th 2017 by Galaxy's Edge
ASIN B0764948W1
I keep being surprised by Cole and Anspach. I have said that before, but I'm going to keep
Cheap Houses in Tokyo
Following this thread from Twitter:
To Steve Sailer's post on the subject, where one of the comments pointed to this Youtube video:
Land in Edogawa is 29,000,000 yen per square meter, which comes out to $3200 per square meter, or about $300 per square foot. Pretty