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a certain PageEpisode 125 - Rise of the Studium Generalefrom Olaf Pedersen's The First Universities2019-02-2503 mina certain PageEpisode 124 - Beehives & the Kibbutza selection from Moshe Safdie's memoir Beyond Habitat2019-02-2402 mina certain PageEpisode 123 - The Dogdom of the Deada poem by A. E. Stallings2019-02-2301 mina certain PageEpisode 122 - War is a Racketfrom a pamphlet written by Major General Smedley Butler (1881-1940)2019-02-2203 mina certain PageEpisode 121 - Hasslefree Poetrya poem y Linda Ori2019-02-2101 mina certain PageEpisode 120 - Antique Monstersa short poem by Barry Middleton2019-02-2001 mina certain PageEpisode 119 - Zoo Specimen by Jim Cowansci-fi from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 19732019-02-1902 mina certain PageEpisode 118 - Wesley Willis whups Batman's assThe greatest poem ever written2019-02-1501 mina certain PageEpisode 117 - Grignr vs. the ratA page from Jim Theis' legendary tale, "The Eye of Argon"2019-02-1407 mina certain PageEpisode 116 - Sense EducationA page from Jeffrey Schrank's Teaching Human Beings: 101 Subversive Activities for the Classroom2019-02-1303 mina certain PageEpisode 115 - Deciphering Dessertfrom the poster "A Guide to Deciphering Dessert" by Bambi Edlund of edible INK2019-02-1202 mina certain PageEpisode 114 - Second WarningThe first page of "World Scientists' Warning to Humanity: A Second Notice"2019-02-1105 mina certain PageEpisode 113 - History of the UniversityA passage from the first chapter of Immanuel Wallerstein's World-Systems Analysis2019-02-1003 mina certain PageEpisode 112 - O Captain! My Captain!From Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass2019-02-0901 mina certain PageEpisode 111 - Jubilate Agnoa passage from Christopher Smart's asylum epic2019-02-0804 mina certain PageEpisode 110 - The Road to Hella poem by Robert E. Howard2019-02-0701 mina certain PageEpisode 109 - Viola vanishedFrom Edward Bulwer-Lytton's Zanoni2019-02-0605 mina certain PageEpisode 108 - A Sense of ProportionA brief passage from Douglas Adam's novel The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.2019-02-0502 mina certain PageEpisode 107 - The Baloney Detection KitNine steps to better reasoning from Carl Sagan's The Demon-Haunted World2019-02-0403 mina certain PageEpisode 106 - 3 by Mary OliverA trio of short poems by the recently deceased poet.2019-02-0302 mina certain PageEpisode 105 - Questions for ReflectionThe full list is available here: https://itotd.com/articles/2444/the-questionnaires-of-james-lipton-bernard-pivot-and-marcel-proust/2019-02-0205 mina certain PageEpisode 104 - The Yellow WallpaperThe conclusion to Charlotte Perkins Gilman's classic short story2019-02-0103 mina certain PageEpisode 103 - Eris RediscoveredFrom that amazing book, the Principia Discordia2019-01-3102 mina certain PageEpisode 102 - The Mysterious BibleA passage from James Hogg's novel The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner2019-01-3003 mina certain PageEpisode 101 - Demythologizing WhitenessFrom Achille Mbembe's essay "Decolonizing Knowledge and the Question of the Archive." https://tinyurl.com/y793c57m2019-01-2904 mina certain PageEpisode 100 - You can ask your assFrom James Joyce's Finnegans Wake2019-01-2803 mina certain PageEpisode 99 - The Meanings of Prehistoric ArtFrom "What the caves are trying to tell us" by Sam Kriss. https://tinyurl.com/y6w22u9g 2019-01-2705 mina certain PageEpisode 97 - A lewd cramboA saucy 18th century example of a now-forgotten verse form2019-01-2601 mina certain PageEpisode 98 - The Anatomy of MelancholyA brief passage from the classic and prodigious work by Robert Burton2019-01-2604 mina certain PageEpisode 96 - The Oldest Love Poem"The Love Song of Shu-Sin," translated from the cuneiform by Samuel Noah Kramer 2019-01-2502 mina certain PageEpisode 95 - Now in Your Own ThoughtsFrom Bodil Jönsson's Unwinding the Clock 2019-01-2402 mina certain PageEpisode 94 - The Reality of the UnseenFrom William James' The Varieties of Religious Experience2019-01-2305 mina certain PageEpisode 93 - The Tay Bridge DisasterSome name this 1880 poem by William McGonagall as the worst verse in the English language.2019-01-2203 mina certain PageEpisode 92 Spectacular TimeFrom Guy Debord's The Society of the Spectacle2019-01-2108 mina certain PageEpisode 91 - Dr. Johnson on ShakespeareFrom Samuel Johnson's Preface to Shakespeare2019-01-2003 mina certain PageEpisode 90 - Of Roon & the 1,000 Home GodsFrom Lord Dunsany's The Gods of Pegana2019-01-1804 mina certain PageEpisode 89 - Roots of BoneShirt fiction from Uel Aramcheck. More if Uel's work can be found here: http://www.northofreality.com/2019-01-1702 mina certain PageEpisode 88 - Performing Anxiety in the Name of GaspA poem by Evan Nave2019-01-1602 mina certain PageEpisode 87 - The Dao of Robber ZhiFrom the Zhuangzi 2019-01-1502 mina certain PageEpisode 86 - Chaldea and AmazoniaFrom The Travels of Sir John Mandeville, circa 1357-13712019-01-0903 mina certain PageEpisode 85 - Three by Trivedia trio of short poems by Amish Trivedi2019-01-0802 mina certain PageEpisode 84 - Formation of the WorldFrom Book V of Lucretius' On the Nature of Things2019-01-0703 mina certain PageEpisode 83 - Curators of ExperienceFrom Peter Mendelsund's What We See When We Read2019-01-0402 mina certain PageEpisode 82 - The Tao of Isabella MearsThe opening of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching as rendered into English by Isabella Mears.2019-01-0301 mina certain PageEpisode 81 - Robert Anton Wilson on beliefFrom the 1986 preface to Cosmic Trigger I: Final Secret of the Illuminati2019-01-0203 mina certain PageEpisode 80 - To Dream You Are King of EnglandFrom the writings of surrealist Remedios Varo2018-12-2902 mina certain PageEpisode 79 - In This Country, I Hear…a poem by Bertolt Brecht2018-12-2801 mina certain PageEpisode 78 - Puzzles vs. MysteriesFrom a New Yorker essay by Malcolm Gladwell2018-12-2702 mina certain PageEpisode 77 - Real 18th-Century Novelsa amazing true list2018-12-2608 mina certain PageEpisode 76 - Birthday of the Worldan old Jewish story2018-12-2501 mina certain PageEpisode 75 - Yule Horrorfestive holiday verse from H.P. Lovecraft2018-12-2401 mina certain PageEpisode 74 - Burial Practices of the Ancient & BarbaricFrom Sir Thomas Browne's Hydriotaphia2018-12-2303 mina certain PageEpisode 73 - The "I" of ScienceFrom Shiv Visvanathan's essay "Between Cosmology and System: The Heuristics of a Dissenting Imagination."2018-12-2203 mina certain PageEpisode 71 - Tablet VIIIFrom The Tablets, a collection of poems by Armand Schwerner2018-12-2006 mina certain PageEpisode 70 - The True Born EnglishmanA poem by Daniel Defoe2018-12-1903 mina certain PageEpisode 69 - Games for SurvivalFrom Raph Koster's A Theory of Fun for Game Design2018-12-1801 mina certain PageEpisode 68 - BibliopsychologyA page from the library theory of Russian educator Nicholas Rubakin2018-12-1703 mina certain PageEpisode 67 - We are the dreamers of dreamsOde by Arthur O'Shaughnessy (1844-1881)2018-12-1501 mina certain PageEpisode 66 - Socrates mistrusts WritingFrom the Phaedrus of Plato2018-12-1404 mina certain PageEpisode 65 - InsubstantialitiesBy American poet and dramatist Cale Young Rice2018-12-0901 mina certain PageEpisode 64 - Ignorance & WantA key passage in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol oft omitted from screen adaptations.2018-12-0803 mina certain PageEpisode 63 - Before there were white peopleFrom the opening chapter of Nell Irvin Painter's The History of White People, which is turning out to really be a history of the concept of whiteness, I think.2018-12-0702 mina certain PageEpisode 62 - Ozymandias Times TwoPercy Bysshe Shelley's famous sonnet and the alternate version by his friend Horace Smith2018-12-0602 mina certain PageEpisode 61 - Nero is dupedFrom the Annals of Tacitus2018-12-0504 mina certain PageEpisode 60 - Teufelsdröckh in loveFrom chapter 5 of Thomas Carlyle's amazing 1836 novel Sartor Resartus2018-12-0402 mina certain PageEpisode 59 - on being raised on fairy tales in which you are the monsterPoem by a.m.h. Thanks to my good friend Sarkos for sharing it with me.2018-12-0301 mina certain PageEpisode 58 - The Chaos by Gerard Nolst TrenitéFollow along at http://ncf.idallen.com/english.html to get the most out of my struggles with my native tongue. Yikes!2018-11-2918 mina certain PageEpisode 57 - Firea poem by Judy Brown2018-11-2801 mina certain PageEpisode 56 - An Old Literary SinnerFrom volume 1 of Benjamin Disraeli's Curiosities of Literature2018-11-2705 mina certain PageEpisode 55 - Culture of the MindFrom the second book of Francis Bacon's Advancement of Learning2018-11-2003 mina certain PageEpisode 54 - Strabo on the BritishThe ancient geographer's report on the barbarians inhabiting a distant island.2018-11-1702 mina certain PageEpisode 53 - The German IdeologyPrefaced to an early work of Messrs. Marx and Engels.2018-11-1702 mina certain PageEpisode 52 - On BecomingFrom Difference and Repetition by Gilles Deleuze2018-11-1402 mina certain PageEpisode 51 - The Two New SciencesThe opening of a classic work on mechanics by Galileo Galilei.2018-10-3104 mina certain PageEpisode 50 - Walker in DarknessA page from Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves2018-10-2603 mina certain PageEpisode 49 - A Spirit in PurgatoryFrom the Divine Comedy, Purgatory, Canto XIII.2018-10-2403 mina certain PageEpisode 48 - Creative ReadingA passage from Ron Padgett's Creative Reading: What It Is, How to Do It, and Why2018-10-2303 mina certain PageEpisode 47 - Wrestling as BurlesqueThe opening to Aubrey Sitterson's essay Professional Wrestling: Burlesque for Boys, found in Nathan D. Paoletta's World Wide Wrestling: The Roleplaying Game.2018-10-2303 mina certain PageEpisode 46 - The Anti-Masonic PartyThe opening to chapter V of John C. Palmer's The Morgan Affair and Anti-Masonry, found in Volume II of the Little Masonic Library.2018-10-2103 mina certain PageEpisode 45 - The Mind-Stuff TheoryThe first page of chapter 6 of The Principles of Psychology by William James.2018-10-1903 mina certain PageEpisode 44 - Planet of the Killer ApesFrom the introductory chapter to Colin Wilson's The Mammoth Book of True Crime 22018-10-1804 mina certain PageEpisode 43 - The Wonders of EgyptAs reported by Herodotus in his HIstory.2018-10-1704 mina certain PageEpisode 42 - EpithalamionThe last three stanzas from the poem by Edmund Spenser.2018-10-1602 mina certain PageEpisode 41 - Jomon PotteryFrom Neil MacGregor's A History of the World in 100 Objects2018-10-1503 mina certain PageEpisode 40 - ShamelaFrom Henry Fielding's satire of Samuel Richardson's novel Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded2018-10-1402 mina certain PageEpisode 39 - If on a winter's night a travelerA page from Italo Calvino's classic postmodernist novel.2018-10-1302 mina certain PageEpisode 38 - The Magnitude of WhalesFrom chapter 105 of Herman Melville's Moby Dick.2018-10-1203 mina certain PageEpisode 37 - Publication by RecitationFrom Marshall McLuhan's The Gutenberg Galaxy2018-10-1103 mina certain PageEpisode 36 - DarknessAn apocalyptic poem by Lord Byron, inspired by the Year Without A Summer2018-10-1004 mina certain PageEpisode 35 - The Sumerians Knew How to PartyFrom Cory O'Brien's irreverent retelling of world mythology, Zeus Grants Stupid Wishes2018-10-0902 mina certain PageEpisode 34 - What It IsFrom cartoonist Lynda Barry's amazing work What It Is. You really need to see a copy to appreciate the fullness of this passage.2018-10-0801 mina certain PageEpisode 33 - The Wizardfrom Jack Prelutsky's collection Nightmares: Poems to Trouble Your Sleep2018-10-0703 mina certain PageEpisode 32 - The Grey BookFrom Tad Tuleja's The Catalog of Lost Books2018-10-0604 mina certain PageEpisode 31 - The Traditionary BalladTranslated out of the Manx, the first 12 stanzas of the verse history of the Isle of Man, originally composed sometime between 1490 and 1530 AD.2018-10-0503 mina certain PageEpisode 30 - in defense of the French RevolutionFrom the Letters Written in France of Helen Maria Williams (1759-1827)2018-10-0403 mina certain PageEpisode 29 - MemoryA short prose poem by H.P. Lovecraft2018-10-0303 mina certain PageEpisode 28 - The Preachings of John BallFrom the Chronicles of Jean Froissart2018-10-0102 mina certain PageEpisode 27 - Practical WisdomFrom bell hooks' Teaching Critical Thinking.2018-09-3002 mina certain PageEpisode 26 - On FootnotesFrom Anglo-French historian and humorist Hilaire Belloc's essay collection simply titled On.2018-09-2902 mina certain PageEpisode 25 - Guan JuAn English rendition of one of the most famous ancient Chinese poems2018-09-2802 min