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Silicon errats or how my first analog ASIC is dead before arrival.
The capability gap is the opportunity surface.
Any biology textbook we read growing up hammered the point home that the purpose of life for every living creature is reproduction. Do you think humans are a magic exception here? Sure, children are hard work and require sacrifices. They...
I bought A Little Stranger (1989) by Candia McWilliam at a National Trust secondhand bookshop, not knowing anything about it but intrigued by the enthusiastic quotes on the back – and, I’ll admit, its brevity. At only 135 pages, I knew
In the first quarter of the year, I attended the Linguistic Society of America 2026 annual meeting online and admired how linguists are really great at pronouncing people’s names (phonetic transcription is a practical skill!).I narrated...
In the first quarter of the year, I attended the Linguistic Society of America 2026 annual meeting online and admired how linguists are really great at pronouncing people’s names (phonetic transcription is a practical skill!).I narrated...
It's been one year since our chickens laid their first eggs and they're still going strong
Cats (Rayist percep. in rose, black, and yellow) by Natalia Goncharova (1913, Oil on Canvas, 85.1 x 85.7 cm, Guggenheim Museum, New York). This is a Rayist (or Rayonist) composition in which the artist tries to capture rays of light...
five-armed coalition of chaos, bad vibes, and questionable optimism. 🌊 🎨
The first time I saw this I was a teenager, and it was the 70s, so all their fancy tools and gadgets and computers and alien life could not have landed harder. When Dr. Leavitt missed that "No growth" slide I almost lost it. So fun....
Jeremy Brett Under Review:She Is Here. Nicola Griffith. PM Press, February 2026. Nicola Griffith has always struck me as an intensely physical author, by which I mean that she imbues her work with an incredible sense of place. For...