Grenouille’s olfactory abilities fit the trope of the defining superhero trait, as does his tragic backstory, his painful and challenging training arc, and his inability to fit into normal society, but he is no hero, protecting eighteenth century Paris from crimes with his beyond-bloodhound sniffer as some manner of odor-based vigilante.
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Metropolitan Strata Release Post and Author’s Note
This story is closer to a classic time travel story, despite there being no time travel, and it’s written differently from how I usually write stories.
Ideas and Innovations Newsletter – 202608.15
Air breathing satellites, deployable launch platforms, mapping the mantle with neutrino emissions, rescuing LINK's rescue mission, flying with sound, ceramic piezoelectric devices, and forecasting solar weather with machine learning.
Announcing: Weekly Science and Technology Newsletter
I am announcing a weekly update post/newsletter, primarily focused on science and technology, but with flexibility for me to include other content if I come across something interesting.
The Forme of Cury Review
After being forced to scroll past dozens of nearly identical, overly sappy stories on various food blogs in order to reach anything relevant about the recipe, I decided to go old school and instead picked up a cookbook from the fourteenth century.
Counting Languages
Far from being a modern phenomenon, the declining diversity of language owes more to broad, civilizational factors, like the onset of agriculture and settlement of large city-states, than it does to the dominance of English in the current international system.
Babel-17
It’s a small-scope, deeply immersive novel with a great deal of understated intricacy and thought underlying its premises, executed with an attention to rhetoric befitting a book in which language plays such a prominent role.
Poetry Practice, Exercise 3
This exercise has two parts: five pairs of unrhymed iambic pentameter, with the first line being end-stopped and without caesuras, and another five pairs with enjambment and caesuras.
Elements of Eloquence Review
For breaking down rhetorical figures, showing them in use, and highlighting how they appear and affect the reader, Elements of Eloquence is a valuable primer and reminder.
Tracing 3I/ATLAS’ Formation
The authors were able to determine what the ancient solar system from which the comet originated might have been like.
IGC Publishing 