The Owlet of Minerva
(Noctua Minervae)
Blogs at dusk on science, religion, and politics
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Posts (newest first)
The Grift Outright
I wanted to write a poem for the Semiquincentennial, but like Trump’s US government it is a tawdry travesty, so a travesty was the best I could do.
Ophanim
The OPHANIM sensor board from CERN’s Aegis project is an absolute delight
Comments via Mastodon
I’m trying out a simple way to collect comments on a static blog via Mastodon and moderate them in Org-mode, with this post as a test case.
Enlightening reflections in Marrakech
I went to Marrakech for a workshop on the rights of the child and all I got you was an owl. Also, a cat picture.
New publication: Retranslating the Qurʾān
We wrote a thing about Slovene translations of the the Qurʾān, and you can download the whole book it’s in
Stop genocide in Rafah
With Israeli forces poised to attack a million Gazans’ last refuge, real international pressure is needed to stop genocide. Where are the sanctions?
The turbe by the “Vampirica” in Podgorica
Once there lived a vampiress by the ghost of a graveyard. But that’s another story. This one is a photo story about how the placement of a Muslim memorial nicely illustrates Hayden’s model of “antagonistic tolerance.”
A blog named Owlet
A first, self-referential post