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I'm Kirk Kittell. These are some notes about things I've seen, read, watched, etc.

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For 1,000 years, a cult worshipped the hero of the Odyssey

The Odyssey was far more than entertainment to ancient Greeks. Archaeologists have unearthed evidence of a cult that revered the Homeric her

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Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey" is pointless

Nolan's latest exercise in cinematic spectacle makes Homer feel hollow.

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British runner Josh Kerr smashes 27-year-old men's mile record

British runner Josh Kerr broke the long-standing men's mile record at a Diamond League meeting in London on Saturday in a time of 3 minutes,

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US reviewing crude storage limits after Cushing OK inventory drained by war

The EIA is studying minimum oil levels at Cushing after low stocks raised concerns about supply accessibility.

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Jonathan Franzen endorses Webster Groves library tax

Whoever said that endorsements don’t matter in politics never asked the favorite literary son of Webster Groves to weigh in on a local libra

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Tom Waits’s Big Time Is Beautiful, And I’m Sorry You Can’t Watch It | Stand By For Mind Control

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Ear leaf helps pack in extra bushels | Farm Progress

Corn Illustrated: Understanding the importance of the ear leaf may change your thinking on when to apply fungicides.

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BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, The Levellers

The political movement during the English Civil War committed to a new idea of equality.

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Authorities Investigated Reports of an Illegal Excavation in Rome. Then, They Stumbled Upon an Ancient Villa Adorned With Mosaics

In the second century C.E., Roman emperors such as Marcus Aurelius and Antoninus Pius frequented the area where the residence was found

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https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/podcast/solving-the-hard-problems-combining-ai-and-physics-for-pcb-design/

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We don’t have hormones, hormones have us.

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Pentagon restores mandatory flu shots for all recruits as boot camp outbreak sickens nearly 300

The Pentagon says military boot camps are once again requiring flu vaccinations for all recruits. This change comes amid a flu outbreak at L

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Full hearts, empty kegs, can't lose: Scotland's Tartan Army takes over World Cup

Scotland's Tartan Army has been one of the stories of the 2026 World Cup so far, drinking its way through Boston and bringing bonhomie, pass

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America's 150th Birthday Celebration Was Deemed the Nation's 'Greatest Flop.' What Went Wrong With the Sesquicentennial?

Philadelphia politicians hoped to replicate the success of the 1876 Centennial Exposition. Instead, the 1926 world's fair lost millions of d

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Every time we think we’ve settled on a price for something, it slips out of our grasp.

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Is this the dawn of the Tokenpocalypse? | TechCrunch

We're likely to see more price increases as the big AI companies plan to go public.

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Bob Dylan’s Carnival Act

His identity was a performance. His writing was sleight of hand. He bamboozled his own audience.