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Just finished reading this delightful book. If you love maps, you’ll love this book for sure. Fascinating stuff about maps used for navigation, controlling epidemics, tracking down serial killers, and finding lost planes in the oceans!

“Remember that dust thou art, and unto dust thou shalt return.” Consider that in a few years, and perhaps in a few months or days, you will become rottenness and worms. -St. Alphonsus

Causation is central to the (social) sciences. And, as these two great introductions to the large literature on causation show, there are different approaches to causation. On Illari & Federica Russo: global.oup.com/academic/produ… On the Handbook: academic.oup.com/edited-volume/…

This is an excellent piece on the hypocrisy of Sri Lankans on Palestine and Tamil Eelam jamhoor.org/read/sri-lanka…

"New in paperback! A History of Nihilism in the Nineteenth Century | Save 20% with code STEWART25 A rich, expansive book reaching beyond philosophy to literature and the history of ideas with strong appeal to diverse readers." cup.org/4emsXAR

"Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot." ~ Charles Bukowski

there’s no such thing as too many books—this room agrees

home is old shelves and ink on paper

Me after saying I wasn't gonna buy any more books for a while

Dear math students, math enthusiasts and anyone curious... This book is really a pure joy to read. It is a story about a very eccentric Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdös (pronounced air-dish ?). He lived out of a suitcase, apparently, and traveled the world to connect with

I think, by law, all homes should have one of these

Important piece by Maxwin Paul Rayen on why Sri Lanka's army remains (and will remain) bloated. The army is an instrument for maintaining a centralized Sinhala-Buddhist nationalist vision of the state, entrenching an ethnocratic order e-ir.info/2025/07/16/mil…

🚨 Military Governance in Post-War Sri Lanka: Revisiting the Logic of Downsizing More than a decade after Sri Lanka’s civil war ended in 2009, the country still maintains one of the world’s largest standing armies. This enduring militarisation cannot be explained by conventional

IR Book of the Week! "Mobilizing the Past" by Steve Chan. Many point to the "Thucydides Trap" when thinking about the prospect of war b/w USA & China. But history can be distorted and can itself distort. It must be handled with care when informing policy amazon.com/Mobilizing-Pas…