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Representative Nancy Pelosi has officially secured the top spot on the Polymarket all-time profit leaderboard, driven entirely by her flawless track record in the platform’s “What Will Nancy Pelosi Do Next?” category.
“The key to AI-assisted and agentic software development is ” The Big Design Up-Front folks say the key is better specifications. The plan-driven folks say it’s better plans. The architects say it’s better architecture. The product...
I absolutely hate that I am posting this. I just found out I do not have the summer position I have come to rely on. This 6-week position may not seem like much to some. To me, it works out to about $6,000 and is how I pay my rent and...
“Shame,” a word we would hear so often as kids whenever we voiced out when we wanted something. Imagine you’ve been eating vegetables for 2 weeks and you ask your parents, “Can’t we at least cook eggs to balance it out?” My dad would say...
Yesterday, Old Structures personnel competed in the Corporate Challenge Race for the first time. Our team average time was 36:43 for the 3.5 mile course, very much based on the strong performances by Tim Michiels and Melanie McCloy. That...
"Hold On" by Alabama Shakes Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. A song from the 2010s that you like or means something to you. - Hold on by Alabama Shakes After an eight-year hiatus, Alabama Shakes...
This is a guest post from museum educator and mathematician Tom Briggs, about his session at last August’s Talking Maths in Public conference. 2025’s Talking Maths in Public (TMiP) conference took place on the Warwick University campus,...
Inevitably I’m intrigued by the depictions of doctors in art, and I was much taken by doctor who advised Lady Chatterley (Connie) in the 1920s in D H Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover. The context is that Lady Chatterley is married …...
The heat wave of the past few days has also hit this part of Europe, and judging by your blog posts and social media updates, we’re not the only ones...
This piece began in an entirely different orientation before gradually revealing its horizon somewhere along the way. I painted it thinking that I… The post A Different Horizon appeared first on Appalachian Ground.
From In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette, by Hampton Sides (Knopf Doubleday, 2014), Kindle pp. 316-318: THE LENA RIVER originates nearly three thousand miles to the south of the Arctic Ocean, …...
A walkthrough on how I added Webmention support to my Astro site to display comments and likes from other websites.
In the Middle Ages, rumours spread across Europe of a strange hybrid creature, half-animal, half-plant, known as the Vegetable Lamb of Tartary. A hoax based on fern rhizomes? A euphemism for culled fetal lambs? Or perhaps a medieval...