Wednesday Blog by Seán Thomas Kane

Sean Thomas Kane
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This podcast is a broadcasted version of Seán Kane's Wednesday Blog. Covering topics from history to natural history, astronomy, and language, the Wednesday Blog offers listeners a thoughtful reflection in the middle of each week.

  1. 10/15/2025

    The Wednesday Blog

    This week, to conclude what I’ve been saying. --- Click here to support the Wednesday Blog: https://www.patreon.com/sthosdkane --- Sources: [1] “Signs,” Wednesday Blog 1.10. [2] “On Servant Leadership,” Wednesday Blog 6.15. [3] Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Ozymandias,” Poetry Foundation.

    The Wednesday Blog

  2. 10/08/2025

    On Machinery

    This week, for the penultimate post of the Wednesday Blog, how machinery needs constant maintenance to keep functioning. --- Click here to support the Wednesday Blog: https://www.patreon.com/sthosdkane --- Sources: [1] Surekha Davies, “Walter Raleigh’s headless monsters and annotation as thinking,” in Strange and Wonderous: Notes from a Science Historian, (6 October 2025). [2] “Asking the Computer,” Wednesday Blog 5.26.

    On Machinery

  3. 10/01/2025

    On Language Acquisition

    This week, how living in a culture is required to speak a language in depth. --- Click here to support the Wednesday Blog: https://www.patreon.com/sthosdkane --- Sources: [1] “A Letter from San Juan,” Wednesday Blog 3.29. [2] “The North American Tour,” Wednesday Blog 5.34.

    On Language Acquisition

  4. 09/24/2025

    On Drink

    This week, bringing together my research and my life through wine. --- Click here to support the Wednesday Blog: https://www.patreon.com/sthosdkane --- Sources: [1] Thevet, Singularitez, 14v. [2] Thevet, Singularitez, 15r. [3] Thevet, Singularitez, 159r. [4] Thevet, Singularitez, 15v. [5] Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 4 vols., (Paris, 1873-1877) s.v. « mignol. » [6] Florike Egmond, Eye for Detail: Images of Plants and Animals in Art and Science, 1500-1630, (Reaktion Books, 2017), 30; Mackenzie Cooley, The Perfection of Nature: Animals, Breeding, and Race in the Renaissance, (University of Chicago Press, 2022), 101. [7] Thevet, Singularitez, 18v. [8] Thevet, Singularitez, 19r. [9] Thevet, Singularitez, 19v. [10] Thevet, Singularitez, 19v-20r. [11] Homer, Odyssey 9.403, trans. Fagles.

    On Drink

  5. 09/17/2025

    On Little Things

    This week, recent events have inspired me to think about the wide, wide world on a smaller scale. --- Click here to support the Wednesday Blog: https://www.patreon.com/sthosdkane --- Click here to buy a copy of my book Travels in Time Across Europe which tells the stories from my year living in London that began 10 years ago this week.

    On Little Things

  6. 09/10/2025

    On Democracy, Part II

    This week, on the current round of redistricting sweeping through Missouri. --- Click here to support the Wednesday Blog: https://www.patreon.com/sthosdkane --- Sources [1] “On Democracy,” Wednesday Blog 5.39. [2] “We, Irish Americans,” Wednesday Blog 6.10. [3] “On Servant Leadership,” Wednesday Blog 6.15. [4] “Freedom from Fear,” Wednesday Blog 2.6; “Embodied Patriotism,” Wednesday Blog 6.26. [5] “Governor Kehoe announces special session on congressional redistricting and initiative petition reform,” Office of the Governor of the State of Missouri, 29 August 2025. [6] “A Scary Time For Chicago | Trump Gets FOMO Over China's Military Parade | Donald's Life Lessons,” The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (3 September 2025), YouTube. [7] “A Defense of Humanism in a Time of War,” Wednesday Blog 6.24.

    On Democracy, Part II

  7. 09/03/2025

    The Lotus-Eaters

    This week, comparing the benefits of pleasure with the rewards of good work. --- Click here to support the Wednesday Blog: https://www.patreon.com/sthosdkane --- Sources: Photo: © Juan Valentín CC BY-NC 4.0 https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/427040191. No modifications made. Available under public license. Image slightly cropped length-wise for podcast episode art.[1] André Thevet, Les Singularitez de la France Antarctique, (Antwerp, 1558), 4v ; Aristotle, Situations and Names of Winds 973b, 12–13.[2] Homer, Odyssey 9.106–110, trans. Robert Fagles, (Penguin, 1996), 214.[3] Homer, Odyssey 9.110–117, trans. Fagles, 214.[4] Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1118a.[5] Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1118a, 8.

    The Lotus-Eaters

  8. 08/27/2025

    On Simplicity

    This week, how the greatest wisdom is simple in nature. --- Click here to support the Wednesday Blog: https://www.patreon.com/sthosdkane --- Sources: Photo by Elizabeth Duke. [1] Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek: The Saint’s Life of Alexis Zorba, trans. Peter Bien, (Simon and Schuster, 1946, 2014), 81. [2] “Elephant Tails,” Wednesday Blog 5.24. [3] “Asking the Computer,” Wednesday Blog 5.26. [4] “On Political Violence,” Wednesday Blog 5.17.

    On Simplicity
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This podcast is a broadcasted version of Seán Kane's Wednesday Blog. Covering topics from history to natural history, astronomy, and language, the Wednesday Blog offers listeners a thoughtful reflection in the middle of each week.

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