Notes and Queries

On the Incomplete Calculation of Volume - May 25, 2026
Young on Natural Pain Relief - April 10, 2026
Romilly and Trédé - Petites leçons sur le grec ancien - April 10, 2026
Read in February 2026 - April 10, 2026
Read in January 2026 - January 31, 2026
2025 Reading - January 1, 2026
Cuconato on Quinean Indispensability and Commitment - December 14, 2025
Hinst on Quine - November 30, 2025
Asymmetries in the Current Canada-US Conflict - March 8, 2025
Shredding Your Constitution in a New York Minute - February 9, 2025
Recently Read - February 8, 2025
Back to Posting, Perhaps - February 2, 2025
Getting Trump Wrong - January 23, 2021
Proust, again - August 27, 2020
Nothing - August 26, 2020
Drawing Stemmas With Tikz - February 15, 2020
Back - December 28, 2017
August Links - August 31, 2014
July online - August 1, 2014
June Link Roundup - June 30, 2014
May Link Roundup - June 1, 2014
April on the web - May 4, 2014
March Links - March 31, 2014
A Reading List for Computational Stemmatology - March 30, 2014
February Links - February 28, 2014
January Links - February 12, 2014
Books of 2013 - January 12, 2014
Woolf on Writing - October 12, 2013
Site reboot - April 29, 2013
Recently read - October 13, 2011 (imported from explananda.com)
Recently read - October 16, 2010 (imported from explananda.com)
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Oliver - March 3, 2010 (imported from explananda.com)
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Welcome to "Notes and Queries":" An Occasional Blog." - June 29, 2009
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Make over - February 1, 2008 (imported from explananda.com)
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Chronicles of the pathologically courteous, Part XCVIII - April 30, 2007 (imported from explananda.com)
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After you've gone - November 1, 2006 (imported from explananda.com)
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What do you want me to prove next? - October 16, 2006 (imported from explananda.com)
His crib was in Athens, yo - August 24, 2006 (imported from explananda.com)
To the stairmaster machine at the gym, which I suspect harboured doubts about whether I could climb 400 flights in an hour - August 20, 2006 (imported from explananda.com)
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Of Priests and Piracy - August 8, 2006 (imported from explananda.com)
Modification brings sign into alignment with local sensibilities - August 8, 2006 (imported from explananda.com)
On the relation between testicles and vocal cords, according to Aristotle - July 25, 2006 (imported from explananda.com)
Characters - July 19, 2006 (imported from explananda.com)
Howl - July 14, 2006 (imported from explananda.com)
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Sucka! - June 16, 2006 (imported from explananda.com)
The relevance of her pleasure - June 14, 2006 (imported from explananda.com)
Lasus and the Lipogram - June 13, 2006 (imported from explananda.com)
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Wheee! - May 3, 2006 (imported from explananda.com)
On the ancient recognition of the problem of beer goggles - April 28, 2006 (imported from explananda.com)
Aristotle on menstruation and mirrors - April 22, 2006 (imported from explananda.com)
Bury Me Not - March 5, 2006 (imported from explananda.com)
PSA: Sony sucks - February 18, 2006 (imported from explananda.com)
A documented ear-span of over 12 inches - February 5, 2006 (imported from explananda.com)
Overheard in the gym - February 3, 2006 (imported from explananda.com)
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Baby Spinach and Avocado Salad - January 10, 2006 (imported from explananda.com)
Here comes the flood - October 13, 2005 (imported from explananda.com)
An old-fashioned alarm clock - July 19, 2005 (imported from explananda.com)
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Easter Memories - April 12, 2004 (imported from explananda.com)
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Aristophanes - February 1, 2004 (imported from explananda.com)
I am Job - November 18, 2003 (imported from explananda.com)