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1975 children's fantasy, first of a loose series but it stands alone. After the last king died, Dalemark was effectively divided between its Earls, and the South is more oppressive than the North, but that doesn't matter to Moril and his...
Co-Authors Dr. Jiaying Zhao and Dr. Elizabeth Dunn I’ve been following Liz Dunn’s happiness research for a while, and now she has co-written a new book, Leave the Lights On: How Joyful Decisions Can Save Our Species (Penguin Random...
It was a whole year before our writing group held another round. That was The Scary Round V, which we held around Halloween time in 2010. Once again I wrote a very short story about some things that were interesting to me at the time:...
Jason Limon. An Early Bronze Age metalworker and shaman discovered over 200 years ago in a lavish burial near Stonehenge and long assumed to be male was actually female, a new genetic analysis reveals.The results of the ancient DNA...
Personal notes for week 31 of 2026
Jonathan Zimmerman is a historian of education at the University of Pennsylvania. This article appeared in the Dallas News March 28, 2026. I’m glad the Colts Neck, New Jersey, school board rejected a proposal last week to rename Conover...
The oligarchy has brought this ill-will and deep suspicion on itself. If they sold jars of mustard it would be “Pervert Mustard”
Current stage of pregnancy: week 10 GA; week 8 FA; 9 cigarettes since the beginning of pregnancy Things are getting real. We bought our first baby item yesterday, a baby carrier that happened to be on sale. This is the kind of carriers...
I was just about to take care of some important government paperwork. An hour later, I know all about the phenomenon where children sometimes start out writing words in mirror writing, what this suggests about adults, and that Leonardo...
You know The Crown Inn: it’s the gorgeous Victorian pub beneath the wonder of the world that is the Stockport viaduct. It’s a much photographed scene because it tells a story about the grandeur of the industrial north and says: this was...
Another day of cloud and showers. Finished sides of hedge round the big lawn and made a start on the top. Mopped all the office out. Saw Cyril Maylor.
It was a long time coming, but the Comic Relief people have finally released Spider-Plant Man on their YouTube channel. It was originally created for Red Nose Day (when people buy a red nose to wear to support charity) in the UK (back in...
"We are hiring a Chief AI Officer. Don't look for a top AI expert."Michael Maeder, a partner in executive search at August Leadership, reports this as the clearest instruction he received from a client, and he is right to have treated it...
Next up in the series on the notable changes in CIDER 2.0: cross-references. Or, as most people call the feature, “find usages” - for years the most commonly cited reason to run clojure-lsp alongside (or instead of) CIDER. Let’s talk...
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