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In a total solar eclipse, the difference between 92% and 100% is everything. At 92% the sky goes a bit weird and those with glasses see a small solar crescent. Curmudgeons remain unimpressed. At 95% the solar disc is still aflame but...
Our writing group was slowing down. It was again a whole year between rounds - but we weren't dead! After six years of writing several stories per year, we were all losing a bit of excitement I think. But our yearly Halloween round kept...
One of the things I do struggle with when taking photos of people on the street is the question of ethics. Is it ethical to capture an image of someone without their permission? In Australia, as in the UK, it is legal to do this. But...
Last Monday I took a trip on the River Stour In Kent, to look at wildlife, in particular to look for beavers. The trip was organised by Grove Ferry River Trips (contact details below), who provide the boat and the skipper plus a very...
Duncan Rawlinson photographed this scene at Antelope Island State Park in Utah, where rust-toned rocks anchor the foreground beneath a darkening sky. The Great Salt Lake stretches across the middle ground, its shallow channels reflecting...
Debunking Hollywood is LWON’s very occasional series that takes a hard science look at common TV and movie tropes. This instalment originally appeared in August 2017. Nothing says interstellar travel like a hibernation pod. The heroes of...
The uncertainty that surrounds the rest of Diageo doesn't seem to be affecting the folks at Guinness: the one bit of the drinks multinational which looks to be washing its face, and no doubt the faces of Johnnie Walker and Captain Morgan...
Another lovely day again with warm sunshine. Think I am out of the dog house at last. Thank goodness. Started to clean the borders up the drive. Did wasps nest.
You Don't Need the Title to Signify What This Art Represents, Which is Why I Don't Include It.Among the One Hundred: The ProfessionalsWhere it comes to first capturing favorites, timing is all. I came to The Professionals, rather it came...
Last month, a Brown professor wrote about discovering that a majority of his students had used AI to cheat on his take-home exam. He was irate about this “scandal,” despite the university seemingly doing little to respond. I attended a...
I tried to define what a Cassandra should be, but could only come up with what it shouldn’t be, and that’s pessimism-as-a-service, or seniority-driven friction. Every time you deploy a heterodox opinion in your company’s channels, you’re...
1 ''Jack Rabbit Slims TwistContest'' - You Never Can Tell - Jerome Patrick Hoban - Chuck Berry (Pulp Fiction) 2 Little Green Bag - George Baker (Reservoir Dogs: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) 3 Fool For Love - Sandy Rogers...
Today I picked up The Dark of Hot Springs Island again($15 digital, $60 physical, published by Swordfish Islands, written by Jacob Hurst, Gabriel Hernandez, Evan Peterson and Donnie Garcia). I’ve had it for a while. It’s a system-neutral...
NoteThis was supposed to be one post, but it grew so long that I had to split it up. Here are/will be the others. For my trip to Berlin, my plan was to check out some museums there about German history and Jewish culture, and of course...
I left a promise unpaid at the end of the first essay in this series: the combined harvester never claimed to think, and the AI model does, which is the one genuinely novel element in the present anxiety. This essay pays this debt, and...