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The rich and powerful used to pose with a hand inside their waistcoat, like Napoleon. Now they pose with thumbs up, like Trump.
Talking of Examinations, I saw an article on the BBC website about a recent Higher Maths paper in Scotland which has generated complaints and a petition because it was allegedly unfair. The introduction to the petition states: This is...
Sometime in the late 1990s, I was asked to be a token skeptic on a TV show featuring three people who claimed they were immortal. The production team didn’t take them very seriously. Probably no one did, but the three – all Americans –...
Listen now | You make the rules!
For most of my life, my writing process was more like gestation than construction; an essay or story would grow in my head until I put it on paper fully-formed. When a high-school English teacher wanted us to include a “jot outline” of...
Hello everyone! Scroll to the end to see where to find the free Exadata Internals & Advanced Performance Metrics seminar videos (4 hours) that are old, but still completely useful and relevant even in 2026! The summer is near, it’s time...
BRIDGE Almost dark and as near as we dare goto the terrible onward of thundering machinery.Kneeling on the near slope black with creosote, burnt brush, with the monster coming on and on, panic rising. We held it; it thumped in our...
If there's evolution in the world, then truth also evolves.
“Being in #Oxford today, I popped into the #OxfordUnion to use a room. Glancing through the term card, it’s absolutely vile – and has been consistently so for the two years I’ve been back in the city. It’s a useful, if deeply...
A product manager opens Cursor on a Tuesday afternoon.
A Lamentation of things past Grief is laying claim to its resting place—twisting and turning me out of my skin. I do not know the woman I see in the mirror. She can no longer survive everything. She begs me to notice her, too—to know...
It's something we can fall prey to far too easily.