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This year's shincha is an unusual one. Harvested in April, this niche tea cultivar is called benitachiwase (ベニタチワセ), and it's commonly processed into black tea, but this is a shincha - a first flush green tea, you could say - so I have...
Hey there. Before this week’s links, a quick update: After a couple of rounds of editing, I recruited a couple of friends as beta readers for Street-Smart Coding Manifesto. It’s not the first time someone’s read these ideas, but I like...
My first week on NHSE's record a vaccination service. Joining NHS England I joined the RAVS (record a vaccination service) team at NHS England (NHSE) this week. Working on a contract via TPX Impact. Shout out to Frankie and others for...
A study of the diet of chinook salmon in the Salish Sea has enabled researchers to create a map of the availability of their forage species. The Tyee: Instead of scientists trawling to try to… More
IN THE ZONE: Exploring the cosmos with PrairiewolfThe Zone Poems media blitz rolls on! Prairiewolf — that band I’m in — is on the cover of the Caribou Current this month, glaring at you semi-menacingly. Managing Editor Jezy Gray’s...
Why all the secrecy Around Short Circuit Current? This article has been on my to-do list since 2016. I had started it but, never finished. In 2016 IR meters started at $500.00 and went up from there. Today the very affordable Fnirsi...
Some wonderful shoutouts for my Private Collectors, we are so here for JigZeni y’all! If you’re interested in a doodle like this, the beginning of the month is the best time to sign up!
Jeff Geerling is living the dream:
This is a collection of short stories, spanning a wide variety of characters and settings, all related to the Pakistani diaspora. I picked this one up not knowing much about it, but the title and cover intrigued me. I was pleasantly...
Lo scorso aprile ho comprato una Nintendo Switch 2. E sì, mentre lo scrivo mi sto dicendo da solo e sti cazzi?
An email records what you sent. A text message records what you said. The chat log, the peculiar new artifact accumulating in evidence lockers across America, records something else entirely: a person thinking aloud to a machine that...
Tomorrow is Independence Day here in the United States. It's a day when we celebrate the Declaration of Independence and the formation of our nation. Where we, as a people, assumed our sovereign political destiny from the tyrant King...
My view of Japan is cartoonish. It’s built almost entirely from exports and a European vantage point. When I watch how other countries portray France through their own exports, the caricature is cringeworthy, so it stands to reason mine...
When I’m in the water and taking photos of things out of the water, I’m never sure whether there’s water on the camera housing. In this case, these three drops appeared in the photo, but I kind of like it!
In 1874 the Manor Park Cemetery Company (who still own and run the cemetery today) bought 115 acres of land on Hamfrith Farm from the British Land Company to open a new cemetery. The company quickly disposed of more than half of their...