# harpers ferry (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover harpers ferry. Page: Feed: --- ## [Omaha Beach / The Children Who Were Chosen](https://www.mostlyaesthetics.com/p/omaha-beach-the-children-who-were) _2026-08-15 · Brad Skow · Mostly Aesthetics_ Two Poems ## [🎓 On the Harem Origin Story of Turkish Coffee Reading](https://www.eleanorkonik.com/p/on-the-harem-origin-story-of-turkish) _2026-08-12 · Eleanor Konik · Manuscriptions_ How women use "fortunes" in their cups as a safe mechanism for gossip, venting, and discussion of taboo subjects without ending up socially ruined. ## [“Hide not your face from me”](https://www.mostlyaesthetics.com/p/hide-not-your-face-from-me) _2026-08-07 · Brad Skow · Mostly Aesthetics_ Bertrand Russell was once asked how he would justify his atheism, if he found himself before the pearly gates. ## [🎓 On Mammals With the Social Structure of Ants](https://www.eleanorkonik.com/p/on-mammals-with-the-social-structure) _2026-08-05 · Eleanor Konik · Manuscriptions_ Reflections on seeing naked mole rats on my last trip to the National Zoo. ## [What makes sad music sad?](https://www.mostlyaesthetics.com/p/what-makes-sad-music-sad) _2026-08-02 · Brad Skow · Mostly Aesthetics_ On Appearance Emotionalism ## [Paradise Regained Read Blind](https://www.mostlyaesthetics.com/p/paradise-regained-read-blind) _2026-07-25 · Brad Skow · Mostly Aesthetics_ Jesus fasted forty days in the desert, and was tempted by Satan. Paradise Regained is John Milton’s re-telling of those temptations, with expansions and inventions. ## [Moral Monsters](https://www.mostlyaesthetics.com/p/moral-monsters) _2026-07-18 · Brad Skow · Mostly Aesthetics_ However evil you believe the Nazis were, the reality was worse. ## [Shakespeare / Anarchy / Revolution](https://www.mostlyaesthetics.com/p/shakespeare-anarchy-revolution) _2026-07-12 · Brad Skow · Mostly Aesthetics_ Is your work is underappreciated? Are you throwing pearls before swine? Take heart! ## [“Prepare the new world an asylum for mankind”](https://www.mostlyaesthetics.com/p/prepare-the-new-world-an-asylum-for) _2026-07-04 · Brad Skow · Mostly Aesthetics_ In early 1776, Common Sense went viral in the colonies, turning heads and tipping the scales toward independence. ## [Love of Country, II: America the beautiful](https://www.mostlyaesthetics.com/p/love-of-country-ii-america-the-beautiful) _2026-07-01 · Brad Skow · Mostly Aesthetics_ What is the American aesthetic? The question sounds like the setup for a joke. It must be as brash as a billboard advertisement, as saccharine as a 64-ounce Big Gulp of Coke Cola. ## [Browse ThreatCrush Modules (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/EbFhBODWDWAv) _2026-07-01 · **Sponsored**_ Install community-built security modules to extend real-time threat intelligence and monitoring ## [Love of Country, I](https://www.mostlyaesthetics.com/p/love-of-country-i) _2026-06-30 · Brad Skow · Mostly Aesthetics_ Patriotism gets some side-eye from many, and—in elite clubs and back-room meetings—patriotic Americans get more. But patriotism can be defended, and is given a worthy defense, in Spencer Case’s soon-to-appear book Why It’s OK to be Patriotic. ## [Lives of the Eminent Philosophers: Thales](https://www.mostlyaesthetics.com/p/lives-of-the-eminent-philosophers-699) _2026-06-27 · Brad Skow · Mostly Aesthetics_ To the promotions committee, this is my evaluation of Thales’ case for tenure. ## [🌲 How to Take Notes on Physical Library Books](https://www.eleanorkonik.com/p/how-to-take-notes-on-physical-library) _2026-05-28 · Eleanor Konik · Manuscriptions_ Sometimes you have to read a physical book you can't write in. What then? Bullet Journal Pocket Editions to the rescue! ## [🎓 Why Successful Empires Preserve Divisions Instead of Erasing Them](https://www.eleanorkonik.com/p/why-successful-empires-preserve-divisions) _2026-05-20 · Eleanor Konik · Manuscriptions_ How empires from Assyria to the Soviets maintained local differences as a tool of control, and what happens when they stop. ## [📗 Harpers Ferry during the Civil War](https://www.eleanorkonik.com/p/review-six-years-of-hell-by-chester) _2026-05-14 · Eleanor Konik · Manuscriptions_ A deep dive on Harpers Ferry during the Civil War, from Brown's raid to the poor bastard stuck untangling the property ownership messes after the war. ## [📚 Neat Stuff I Read in April 2026](https://www.eleanorkonik.com/p/neat-stuff-i-read-in-april-2026) _2026-05-07 · Eleanor Konik · Manuscriptions_ On "doing your own research" in the AI age, messy economics in fiction, & what funerals do to African households. Also: the airline wars, vending-machine money laundering, & breakthrus in health sci. ## [🥘 The Konik Method for Making Delicious Food](https://www.eleanorkonik.com/p/the-konik-method-for-making-delicious) _2026-04-30 · Eleanor Konik · Manuscriptions_ Five recipes I cook pretty regularly, that don’t stress me out, that are reasonably healthy and maximally efficient. Also, tasty! ## [🎓 How Organisms Rewrite Bodies Without Changing Genes](https://www.eleanorkonik.com/p/how-organisms-rewrite-themselves) _2026-04-22 · Eleanor Konik · Manuscriptions_ On phenotype plasticity, facultative neoteny, RNA editing, and metamorphosis, focused on locusts, maize, octopuses, dogs and holly trees respond to environments without "evolving" per se. ## [💰 Some stuff I'm surprisingly happy I bought in 2025](https://www.eleanorkonik.com/p/some-stuff-im-surprisingly-happy) _2026-04-16 · Eleanor Konik · Manuscriptions_ Every year at tax time I go over the pervious year's purchases for things I can expense. This year, I'm sharing a list of the stuff I don't regret buying. ## [Save with community-voted codes (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/t56Xyn9Xg8Yo) _2026-04-16 · **Sponsored**_ Search thousands of community-verified coupon codes — 100% free, no account needed. ## [📗 On Building a Vocabulary for Discussing Network Effects](https://www.eleanorkonik.com/p/on-building-a-vocabulary-for-discussing) _2026-04-08 · Eleanor Konik · Manuscriptions_ A Review of The Cold Start Problem by Andrew Chen