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Winged words
Verba volant, scripta manent.
Aug 14
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biblonia
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Biography spilling into myth
The renowned Greek orator Demosthenes knew what growth mindset was.
Aug 10
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Dr Cristian Ispir
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Is it really an error?
Challenging the idea that getting an idea wrong is wrong
Aug 7
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Dr Cristian Ispir
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Proverbially ours
Gently debunking how proverbs are born and survive
Aug 3
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Dr Cristian Ispir
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July 2026
The cunning intelligence of ancient mêtis
There is no doubt that we are indebted to the ancients, Greeks and Romans first of all, as the vehicles through which the wisdom of the Mediterranean…
Jul 31
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Dr Cristian Ispir
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Apocalyptic mindset
Whether it’s climate, AI, civil war, or the thousand mythologies explored in fiction, television and cinema, such as plagues, aliens, natural disasters…
Jul 27
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Dr Cristian Ispir
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The slop before AI
Call it medieval slop, if you will.
Jul 24
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Dr Cristian Ispir
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M is for ...
Every single time we drive down a British motorway, I subject my wife to the same complaint, and I suspect she now mouths it along with me before I even…
Jul 20
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Dr Cristian Ispir
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Move slowly and break one fewer thing
The typewriter may have been the most paradoxical invention in history.
Jul 13
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Dr Cristian Ispir
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The social role of language errors
People can be roughly divided into two types: those who wince at a misplaced apostrophe (check out my post here) or a dangling participle, and those who…
Jul 11
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Dr Cristian Ispir
2
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We are all mythophiloi
While Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey is hitting the water next week, a different Christopher has put another vessel in the wake of Odysseus’ crisscrossing…
Jul 6
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Dr Cristian Ispir
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The long experiment
The making of medieval Europe was caught between continuity and collapse
Jul 3
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Dr Cristian Ispir
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