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Dog 137

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Someone needs to stop the experiments on the dogs. They are being deliberately poisoned to support the Army’s World War I chemical warfare program. The job falls to a homeless orphan, known as Einleff. Will he find the humanity within himself to save the dogs, or will he become complicit in the experiments and allow them to...

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Goode's World Atlas

22nd edition

First published in 1923, Goodes World Atlas sets the standard for college reference atlases. The 22nd edition features hundreds of new physical, political, and thematic maps.
4.4 out of 5 stars on Amazon, 3.9 on Goodreads


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Goode's World Atlas

21st Edition

The 21st edition of the classic college atlas first published by Rand McNally in 1923.
4.6 out of 5 stars on Amazon, 3.9 on Goodreads

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Other Writing

Essay in Madison Magazine (Oct., 2026) about the UW-Madison Dermestarium, where animal bones are picked clean by flesh-eating beetles.

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During the First World War, on a small university campus in the Midwest, the Army initiates a secret project to develop a machine to compute the...

Dog 137 is set in 1917 when the US became involved in the First World War. The protagonist, named Einleff, is a homeless seventeen-year-old. He...

A short story set in 1918. Callista Bishop, a patient at a small, rural psychiatric institute, has suffered a breakdown. Her fiancé, Jack Blackman,...

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Oddsconsin Blog

October 10, 2026

A map, a map, my kingdom for a map!
– King Richard in William Shakespeare’s “Richard III”

This week’s Oddsconsin post is this map.

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October 3, 2026

I resolved, if ever wealth came to me, that it should be used to establish free libraries.
- Andrew Carnegie, 1889

Andrew Carnegie believed in the...

September 26, 2026

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things.
- Booker T. Washington

Wisconsin has a lot of round...

September 19, 2026

BIRGing (Basking In Reflected Glory) – The tendency to enhance one’s self-esteem by heightening one’s association with a successful or prestigious...

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