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I had to move out of my office on Stanford’s campus. I had retired from the Graduate School of Education in 2001 and since GSE had allotted offices in one of the two education buildings on campus for retired professors who, like myself,...
Kamandi, The Last Boy On Earth #34 Date: October 1975 Publisher: DC Comics Cover Price: 25¢ 2013 Price Range: $2.00 - $22.00 Stats: 18 color pages plus ads and "The Time Capsule" column Written & Drawn by: Jack Kirby Other Artists: D....
Celebrating 10 years of exploration, discovery, and adventure in the vast, ever-expanding universe of No Man's Sky. Happy Anniversary to Hello Games, No Man's Sky. It is 10 years, and hopefully another 10. A sequel would be great....
In my quest for an introductory step for modellers in N, wanting to get started but not confident to build turnouts, I’ve taken a second look at Peco Code 55…Its robust and reliable construction and ease of use are huge benefits -...
What am I doing? Not a Masters (NaM) Unit 1: The Stories I Tell Myself The Assignment Credentials vs. Instincts — Nell Painter enters art school with a PhD in history and is still treated as a beginner. Why does non-fiction and internet...
Marling bezeichnet sich selbst als Weindorf – und nach zwei Tagen vor Ort kann ich bestätigen: Das ist weit mehr als ein touristischer Beiname. Rund um den kleinen Ort oberhalb von Meran liegen zahlreiche Höfe, auf denen Wein, Obst,...
Double Maths First Thing has an army of clones Hello! My name is Colin and I am a mathematician on a mission to spread the joy and delight of working things out. I had a delightful chat with young Bill about complex numbers and matrices...
Four years ago, I wrote a short apology for playing games, targeted specifically towards digital video games. Today, I would like to reiterate my statement and expand the idea to analogue board games. The analogue and innate social...
I wish I didn’t have to use NoScript. For those unacquainted, NoScript is a browser plugin which I use with Firefox that allows me to control the running JavaScript on a website. After years of finding questionable JavaScript all over...
Grouse shooting begins Yet another lovely warm sunny day. Did B1 car and polished it. Going in for a new one. 1 ton coke. A.P. Lots of meal to burn. Did some more under the rhodies.
Most conversations about artificial intelligence and the executive begin with a number that refuses to move. For the better part of a decade the surveys have promised imminent transformation; for the same decade the measured return has...
Elizabeth Howard? The Concubine by Norah Lofts published 1963 The Lady in the Tower by Jean Plaidy published 1989 The Lives of the Queens of England by Agnes Strickland published during the 1840s I’ve just been reading a novel about the...
thought Experiment on thought Experiments Films are thought experiments. Critics review them as art; I wanted to read them as physics. So I built Movie Substrate — a tool that runs ten thousand films through the emergence framework and...
From The Spectator, back in December: You’ve probably seen the videos. Kemi Badenoch delivering her Budget response in the form of a rap to a sobbing Rachel Reeves. Keir Starmer as a McDonald’s drive-thru worker. David Lammy as a Spice...
August 12, 2026 Let’s visit the duck, shall we? I think she’s like a lot of us these days – calm on the surface, paddling like mad underneath… Our heroine – the wildlife research statistician – is finishing up her stint at the very rural...