The Milking Stool and the Next Month
This is one of the family milking stools. Yes, it’s as short as it looks, just about twleve inches high, just right to reach a cow’s udder. By the…
Read moreMen’s Labor (Farming) vs Women’s Labor (Cooking): Tortillas
Note. If you’ve been to this page before, I’ve now (pm 5 december) edited the figures. Many thanks Larry. I’ve just been reading E.A. Wrigley‘s Energy and the English…
Read moreWill there be a return to servants?
Megan McArdle at the Atlantic, following Arnold King, asks this. Why hasn’t rising inequality resulted in in the much-predicted oligarchy? Or to put it as he does: with so many…
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