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19:2519:25, 24 January 2026 Unnatural Voices (hist | edit) [20,167 bytes] Robert.adlington (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== 1. Introduction: Transgressing Self and Voice - Contemporary Fiction and the Death of the Narrator == * == 2. "At First You Feel a Bit Lost": The Varieties of Second Person Narration == * == 3. Class and Consciousness: "We" Narration from Conrad to Postcolonial Fiction == * == 4. I etcetera: Multiperson Narration and the Range of Contemporary Narrators == * == 5. Three Extreme Forms of Narration and a Note on Postmodern Unreliability == * == 6. Unnatural Nar...") Tag: Visual edit

13:3313:33, 10 January 2026 How the World Made the West (hist | edit) [4,522 bytes] Robert.adlington (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== Introduction == == 1. A Single Sail == == 2. The Palace of Minos == == 3. The Amber Routes == == 4. The Erupting Sea == == 5. Band of Brothers == == 6. Alphabet City == == 7. Regime Change == == 8. I Am Not Your Servant == == 9. Through the Pillars == == 10. The Invention of Greece == == 11. The Assyrian Mediterranean == == 12. He Who Saw the Deep == == 13. The Bitter River == == 14. The King of Kings == == 15. The Persian Version == == 16. Continental Thinking == ==...") Tag: Visual edit: Switched

10:3510:35, 5 January 2026 The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative (hist | edit) [46,477 bytes] Robert.adlington (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== 1. Narrative and Life == == 2. Defining Narrative == == 3. The Borders of Narrative == == 4. The Rhetoric of Narrative == == 5. Closure == == 6. Narration == == 7. Interpreting Narrative == == 8. Three Ways to Interpret Narrative == == 9. Interpretation Across Media == == 10. Character and Self in Narrative == == 11. Narrative and Truth == == 12. Narrative Worlds == == 13. Narrative Contestation == == 14. Narrative Negotiation ==") Tag: Visual edit

06:0006:00, 29 December 2025 Coding Experiments (hist | edit) [9,761 bytes] Robert.adlington (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== Setup == This was surprisingly easy. I already had a personal github, but needed to install the iOS app. Once that was done, Claude Code walked me through linking to it. CC will create a branch and do its work, but then I need to manually create a PR to merge that branch to main. This is probably a good guardrail for real development work == Triangle Generator == I started in a very informal manner, getting CC to generate a random right angled triangle and to provide...") Tag: Visual edit

14:2114:21, 17 December 2025 How Life Works (hist | edit) [53,447 bytes] Robert.adlington (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* Prologue * 1. The End of the Machine: A New View of Life * 2. Genes: What DNA Really Does * 3. RNA and Transcription: Reading the Message * 4. Proteins: Structure and Unstructure * 5. Networks: The Webs That Make Us * 6. Cells: Decisions, Decisions * 7. Tissues: How to Build, When to Stop * 8. Bodies: Uncovering the Pattern * 9. Agency: How Life Gets Goals and Purpose * 10. Troubleshooting: Rethinking Medicine * 11. Making and Hacking: Redesigning Life * Epilogue") Tag: Visual edit: Switched

19:4719:47, 14 December 2025 Chemistry: A Very Short Introduction (hist | edit) [7,597 bytes] Robert.adlington (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== Origins, Scope, and Organization == * Chemistry exploits quantum mechanics and thermodynamics from physics. * Biology is merely an elaboration of chemistry. * Chemistry can be divided into: ** Physical Chemistry - At the interface between physics and chemistry. ** Organic Chemistry - Concerned with compounds of carbon. As a result of its mild and unaggressive character, Carbon is able to form chains and rings of startling complexity., which is exactly what organisms...") Tag: Visual edit

10:1910:19, 7 December 2025 Geometry (hist | edit) [1,033 bytes] Robert.adlington (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Lines and Points == Triangles == * Triangles have three sides and three angles, which add up to 180 * Congruent Triangles - have the same size and shape (and remain congruent even if they are flipped, turned, or rotated * Circumcenters, Incenters, Centroids, and Orthocenters {| class="wikitable" |+ !Circumcenter !Incenter !Centroid !Orthocenter |- | | | | |- | | | | |- | | | | |} *") Tag: Visual edit

18:2218:22, 6 December 2025 Les Rougon-Macquart (hist | edit) [4,628 bytes] Robert.adlington (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== Liste des vingt romans == {| class="wikitable sortable" !N° !Parution !Titre !Date de l'action !Personnages principaux des Rougon-Macquart !Génération !Ordre de lecture recommandé par Zola<ref name=":0"></ref> |- | style="text-align:right" |1 | style="text-align:center" |1871 |''[https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Fortune_des_Rougon La Fortune des Rougon]'' | style="text-align:center" |1790 - 1851 |Pierre Rougon, Antoine Macquart, Silvère Mouret |1 et 2 |1 |- | sty...") Tag: Visual edit
10:2210:22, 6 December 2025 Literal Calculation (hist | edit) [3,290 bytes] Robert.adlington (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== Developing and Factorizing Equations == For any real numbers: * <math>a(b + c) = ab + ac</math> * <math>a(b - c) = ab - ac</math> * <math>(a + b)(c + d) = ac + ad + bc + bd</math> == Remarkable Identities == For any real numbers: * Square of a sum: <math>(a + b)^2 = a^2 + 2ab + b^2</math> * Square of a difference: <math>(a - b)^2 = a^2 - 2ab + b^2</math> * Difference of two squares: <math>a^2 - b^2 = (a + b)(a - b)</math> == Powers and Exponents == For any non-nul...") Tag: Visual edit

10:3010:30, 25 November 2025 The Man from the Future (hist | edit) [9,772 bytes] Robert.adlington (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== 1. Made in Budapest == == 2. To Infinity and Beyond == * Von Neumann rigorously defines a class as a collection of sets that share a property. In his theory it is no longer possible to speak meaningfully of either a "set of all sets" or a "class of all classes"; only a "class of all sets". His formulation elegantly avoids the contradictions of Russell's paradox without all the restrictions of type theory. There is no "set of all sets that are not members of themselves...")

10:1210:12, 22 November 2025 The Practice of Not Thinking (hist | edit) [5,518 bytes] Robert.adlington (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== A Thinking Disease == * By thinking we can become ignorant * Withdrawing into our brain decreases our power of concentration * The three disturbing emotions: desire, anger, and uncertaintly * Keeping your sense active helps maintain a balanced state of mind * Satisfying your mind by responding to your senses == How to Control Your Body and Your Mind == * Steps to eliminate frustration and uncertainty === Speaking === * Observe the tone of your voice as a basis fo...") Tag: Visual edit

11:3211:32, 19 November 2025 The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are (hist | edit) [24,492 bytes] Robert.adlington (talk | contribs) (Created page with "=== 1. Inside Information === * Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency. * We do not need a new religion or a new bible. We need a new experience - a new feeling of what it is to be "I" * Just as sight is something more than all things seen, the foundation or "ground" of our existence and our awareness cannot be understood in terms of things that are known. * In the Vedanta philosophy, nothing...") Tag: Visual edit

17:5717:57, 15 November 2025 Everything is Predictable (hist | edit) [20,656 bytes] Robert.adlington (talk | contribs) (Created page with "=== Introduction: A Theory of Not Quite Everything === === 1. From the Book of Common Prayer to the Full Monty Carlo === === 2. Bayes in Science === === 3. Bayesian Decision Theory === === 4. Bayes in the World === === 5. The Bayesian Brain === === Conclusion: Bayesian Life ===") Tag: Visual edit

13:1913:19, 12 November 2025 La Curée (hist | edit) [1,575 bytes] Robert.adlington (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* I: Renée Saccard is riding with Maxime, her stepson au bois, is bored with her life as a beautiful rich society woman, and begins to be attracted by the idea of sleeping with Maxime. At a party, she spies on Maxime and Louise de Mareuil, a strange, tragic girl who is expected to die young, and whose father seeks political advantage in exchange for a dowry of a million francs. * II: Back in time, Aristide Rougon arrives in Paris, changes his name to Saccard. He works a...")

21:2621:26, 4 November 2025 The Emperor of All Maladies (hist | edit) [12,465 bytes] Robert.adlington (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* Leukemia - discovered in 1845 * Pernicious anemia is caused by a lack of vitamin B * More than 300bn blood cells are produced per day, but if there is a lack of folic acid then production in the bone marrow halts. * Metastasis - "beyond stillness" * Cancer asphyxiates us by filling bodies with too many cells. It is an expansionist disease, it invades through tissues, sets up colonies in hostile landscapes, seeking "sanctuary" in one organ and then immigrating to anothe...") Tag: Visual edit

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