Coffee Break: Science again, Dr. Fauci, Polio, Ancient Art, and a Parting Shot
Part the First: They Really Are Serious About Destroying American Science (but that has been clear from the beginning). The ...
Monday, August 17, 2026
Tag: Ancient
The oldest known written customer complaint is a 3,750-year-old clay tablet from ancient Ur, where a furious customer named Nanni accused the merchant Ea-nasir of delivering sub-standard copper — proof that bad reviews are almost as old as writing itself
In the British Museum’s Mesopotamian collection sits a palm-sized rectangle of baked clay, catalogued as UET V 81. It is ...
Coffee Break: Ancient Art, the Return of Analog, Science in Distress, and Death Is for Losers
Part the First: Functional Art from the Enigmatic Daunians. William Morris famously wrote, “Have nothing in your houses that you ...
Quote of the day by Helen Mirren: “When you’re 16, 30 seems ancient. When you’re 30, 45 seems ancient. When you’re 45, 60 seems ancient. When you’re 60, nothing seems ancient.”
“When you’re 16, 30 seems ancient. When you’re 30, 45 seems ancient. When you’re 45, 60 seems ancient. When you’re ...
Coffee Break: Ancient Travelers and Artists, an Enigmatic Devonian Giant, and a Thinking Cow
After one full year the grim news on the science front – all fronts really – this Coffee Break is ...
Coffee Break: Pluto’s Republic, Dietary Guidelines, Vaccine Nonsense, Ancient Poison Arrows, and Renaissance DNA
Part the First: We Live in Pluto’s Republic. With apologies to the shade of Walt Disney, this was bound to ...
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