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Study finds that, after 2,500 years of poets, playwrights, historians, and philosophers warning of the dangers of hubris, just a couple of centuries more is all it should take to convince politicians and leaders to heed them.

Water rights are going to be fun…

Clouds in NE New Mexico

YouTube video by Andrew Barbin La Marseillaise Casablanca

Happy Bastille Day! It's always important to remember the holiday's most important message: no matter how bleak things look, never stop standing up to Nazis.

Hiring FOUR new tenure-track faculty positions at TXST
- Hist. Science & Tech. in W. Europe and/or Its Empires
-Hist. Medicine in Early N. America & Atlantic, 1500-1800
-Environmental Hist. Focus on Water in Human History
-Public Hist. & Documentary Film

Info here: www.txst.edu/history/news...

YouTube video by Nina Cole Garguilo Four Cautionary Tales and a Moral-Liza Lehmann

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And we all breathe again.

Cover of music for piano and voice featuring a vengeful lion and songs about children who misbehaved and suffered hideous fates. Music by Liza Lehmann, verse by Hillaire Belloc.

Triaging my great-aunt’s sheet music collection. This is a keeper…

Except Carney’s French is notoriously bad, but the point still stands.

An honor to hear this learned and incisive person talk about their life and work. #acls

I looked like an enormous punk tangerine

A pair of sturdy and badass boots.

An undergraduate complimented my outfit today. I feel like a rock star.

Judging high-school videos for the state German competition. This year's best line: "Sie sieht aus wie eine möchte-gern Angela Merkel..." That is a banger. Teenagers (especially if they are someone else's) will always amaze and delight -- such a clever bunch this year!

Paganini may have used his thumb but I can’t…

Sunsets 1 and 2 at 18:20

Austin blizzard

I have completed my first week of teaching in person since May, 2023. So far, one of the big takeaways is that my Fitbit is happy. My Fitbit doesn’t understand how much I gesture when I talk.

Vast Trove of Arnold Schoenberg’s Music Is Destroyed in Fire An estimated 100,000 scores by Schoenberg, the groundbreaking 20th-century composer, were destroyed when the publishing company his heirs founded burned down.

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Visiting one of my bestest friends from grad school. She suggested that historians are “over invested in reality.” This strikes me as a statement of genius.

(Imported from the Site that Shall Not Be Named)

Home with the Parental Unit means….elderflower mead. Prost, Góð Jól, and Happy Hanukkah!

YouTube video by Helmut Qualtinger - Topic Der dialektische Materialismus-Rock

Cold War Austrian Satire Rock youtu.be/J4GVGeuvy6M?...

GSA mit Schlag

…and historian (particularly those of us specializing in German and Central European history)

Uttered by me today in the citrus aisle to a shopper looking for large oranges: “It isn’t the size of the navel but the quality of contemplation that counts.” Possibly this is why I ought not to go out alone….

Visiting unfamiliar conference territories and having a lovely time! #AATG #ACTFL2024

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So does one take the cannoli and leave the gun, or the other way around? I can never remember….