This week, for the penultimate post of the Wednesday Blog, how machinery needs constant maintenance to keep functioning.

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Sources:

[1] Surekha Davies, “Walter Raleigh’s headless monsters and annotation as thinking,” in Strange and Wonderous: Notes from a Science Historian, (6 October 2025).

[2] “Asking the Computer,” Wednesday Blog 5.26.

This week, how living in a culture is required to speak a language in depth.

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Sources:

[1] “A Letter from San Juan,” Wednesday Blog 3.29.

[2] “The North American Tour,” Wednesday Blog 5.34.

This week, bringing together my research and my life through wine.

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Sources:

[1] Thevet, Singularitez, 14v.

[2] Thevet, Singularitez, 15r.

[3] Thevet, Singularitez, 159r.

[4] Thevet, Singularitez, 15v.

[5] Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 4 vols., (Paris, 1873-1877) s.v. « mignol. »

[6] Florike Egmond, Eye for Detail: Images of Plants and Animals in Art and Science, 1500-1630, (Reaktion Books, 2017), 30; Mackenzie Cooley, The Perfection of Nature: Animals, Breeding, and Race in the Renaissance, (University of Chicago Press, 2022), 101.

[7] Thevet, Singularitez, 18v.

[8] Thevet, Singularitez, 19r.

[9] Thevet, Singularitez, 19v.

[10] Thevet, Singularitez, 19v-20r.

[11] Homer, Odyssey 9.403, trans. Fagles.