* Roger Scruton, Kitsch and the Modern Predicament. I discussed kitsch here recently, trying to situate the notion in a larger context.
* Clare Coffey, Modernity's Spell, discusses mesmerism.
* John Locke's Method for Common-Place Books
* John Wilkins on John Ray.
* John P. McGann, Poor Human Olfaction Is a Nineteenth Century Myth
* Gregory DePippo on the life of St. Vincent Ferrer, who served the Avignon papacy; I've discussed St. Vincent here before, Vincent Ferrer and the Antipope.
* Dan Nosowitz looks at the manchineel tree, America's most dangerous tree.
* Elizabeth Picciuto, Why We Feel for Fictional Characters. I discussed the Paradox of Fiction here some years ago. Like Picciuto I would reject premise 1.
* A. Dneprov, The Game
* An interesting Quora discussion of how China feeds its people.
* Brandon Otto, Confirmation in the Church Fathers. I don't think he gets St. Cyril of Jerusalem entirely right; in comparing Confirmation and the Eucharist, the point St. Cyril is making, it seems to me, is not that Confirmation involves something like transubstantiation but that it involves the real presence of the Holy Spirit.
* Ian Miller reviews Owen Davies's A Supernatural War, on purported miracles and religious experiences in World War I.
* Jim Beall, Warships of Sea and Space
* James Hannam on Lucretius.
* Emily Herring on Henri Bergson.
* Philippe Lemoine, Why falsificationism is false and Hell hath no fury like a Popperian scorned
* Oliver Burkeman, How the news took over reality
