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Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Canonball, Evan and I discuss the play "Medea," which Euripides wrote and which was first performed in 431 BC.  The cover art for this episode is the painting "Jason and Medea," which John William Waterhouse completed in 1907.

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Canonball we discuss "Mozart On The Way To Prague" by Eduard Mörike, which was published in 1856. Here is the final scene of Don Giovanni, Mörike's description of which we discuss at around 28:32  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ioc9shJa_lI Here i…

Send us Fan Mail In today's episode of Canonball we discuss Francis Petrarch's "Scattered Rhymes," which were written over 40 years and finalized as a collection shortly before Petrarch's death in 1374. 

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Canonball we discuss "Where Is Science Going?" by Max Planck, which was published in 1932.

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Canonball we discuss "Novum Organum," which Francis Bacon wrote and which was published in 1620.

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Canonball, Evan and I discuss the play "Eumenides," which is the third part of Aeschylus' only extant trilogy "Oresteia," which premiered in 458 BC. The cover art for this episode is from a painting titled Pallas Athena that Rembrandt com…

Send a text This is a summary of what I think is the best approach to learning a language, based on my experience mastering a foreign language as an adult.  Here you can download the software that I mentioned, Anki: https://apps.ankiweb.net/ Here is a page of links to word-frequency lists for Germa…

Send a text In this episode of Canonball we discuss "The Life Of Saint Louis," which Jean de Joinville completed in 1309.  The cover art for this episode is a painting titled Louis IX that Émile Signol completed in 1844. The other painting I mentioned is Saint Louis Mediating Between the …

Send a text In this episode of Canonball we discuss the fragments of Heraclitus, who lived in the sixth and fifth centuries BC.  The cover art for this episode is The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, which JMW Turner completed in 1834 or 1835.