As he browsed various online forums trying to learn about college, Rob Henderson came across a book published in 1983 with an intriguing title: Class: A Guide Through the American Status System b...
https://www.isegoria.net/2024/03/it-tested-extremely-well-with-certain-audience-segments/
Jake Paul is set to fight former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson in a boxing match that will be livestreamed on Netflix, on July 20, from the AT&T Stadium in Texas: “It’s crazy to think that ...
Mark Koyama notes that his most downloaded academic paper on SSRN is a yet to be published book chapter on the political economy of Frank Herbert’s Dune: We should first ask: do fictional unive...
https://www.isegoria.net/2024/03/life-without-a-state-is-dominated-by-custom/
As I’ve noted before, Valentine’s Day is an odd holiday. Saint Valentine is the name of fourteen different martyred saints — and the one whose feast falls on February 14? We don’t know ...
https://www.isegoria.net/2024/02/valentines-day-is-an-odd-holiday/
Interactive books weren’t a completely new idea before Choose Your Own Adventure (CYOA), but they weren’t popular: There was a romance novel from the 1930s, where the reader decides which sui...
Steamboat Willie finally fell out of copyright this year: Steamboat Willie was the third of Mickey’s films to be produced, but it was the first to be distributed, because Disney, having seen Th...
https://www.isegoria.net/2024/01/steamboat-willie-was-the-third-mickey-mouse-film-to-be-produced/
The Swedish language edition of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit from the 1960s was illustrated by famed Moomins creator Tove Jansson (and edited by noted children’s author Astrid Lindgren). It tu...
https://www.isegoria.net/2024/01/gollums-appearance-had-never-included-any-description-of-his-size/
Nobody finishes reading his books, Paul Bloom admits: How often do people make it to the end of books? The mathematician Jordan Ellenberg did some number crunching, looking at the passages marked...
When I recently revisited H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine and the 1960 movie, I noticed that Max also had Time After Time, a 1979 movie I enjoyed watching on TV as a kid, in which Wells builds a w...
On X (formerly Twitter), Eric Hoel commented, most of the timeline consisted of short videos of war crimes. I find comments about X (formerly Twitter) interesting, because “the timeline” isn�...
https://www.isegoria.net/2023/10/the-majority-of-people-on-a-trauma-call-just-stare-at-the-dying/