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On the joys and tribulations of living through a golden age in microbiology
Some words: The 53rd Wednesday of 2025 was actually considered the first week of 2026. I started Week 1 the next week, so I’ve been ‘off’ the official week number by one. I’m correcting it today.
Earth has been overwhelmed with Star Spores from space, mutating its flora and fauna in ferocious ways! Courageous soldier Jesse Varlette has fought valiantly, except he’s ended up with an alien parasite on his body. He is,...
Today’s recording starts with a trail for Saturday Morning programmes on CBBC. Then it’s Shaun the Sheep – The Kite. It’s a very windy day, and a kite finds its way to the farm. It spooks the sheep. Shaun gets tangled up in the tail and...
Jack Douglas built rock records the way a luthier builds guitars — by hand, with obsessive attention to resonance. His death leaves a hole not just in the obituary columns but in the ongoing argument about what recorded music is actually...
I had an HSA years ago. They sent me an email today regarding my tax forms (for the year I’ve already filed my taxes for). The mail included their company logo as an attachment, but mis-named so that it’s not viewable. And when I went to...
Bi-partisan bill would stop investigating Free-Range parents Son in Famous Meitivs of Maryland Case Weighs In — as Does His Mom How do you get more kids out and about on their own – and assure parents this won’t be mistaken for neglect?...
B:Dum B:Dum Sound were / are a Mancunian trio, who in 1993 released a Midnight Express-sampling Balearic Beat favourite titled Istanbul.* Mysticisms then revived this in demand track as a dubplate in 2021. I’m not sure if the 3 friends,...
What motivated this blog post was this report (Kathryn Palmer, Inside Higher Ed, 11 May 2026) that Instructure (the company that owns Canvas) has paid an undisclosed ransom to a gang of cybercriminals that hacked the company’s learning...
by Elisa Giudici Peter Jackson. Photo by Elisa Giudici At the end of the ’80s Peter Jackson arrived in Cannes for the first time as a self-taught splatter filmmaker from New Zealand and immediately got thrown out of the Palais for...
I've been running Oh My Zsh (OMZ) on every workstation I've ever owned. It was one of the first things I'd install when setting up a new machine or cleanly updating an existing one. For years, I've blindly copied my workstation...
Visiting the exhibition 'Flemish Primitives' with works by Fleur Debruyne at B93. I was impressed by the titles of her works.
Kristen French for Nautilus: New Fathers Are Dying, and We Don’t Know Why. Oh but we do, at least superficially: “of 130,000 men who became new fathers between 2017 and 2022, almost 800 died during that same 5-year period, and 60 percent...