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Hurvin Anderson, Lower Lake, 2005I've been twice now to the Tate's Hurvin Anderson exhibition - a refreshingly cool, air-conditioned experience on these recent hot days, even though many of his landscape paintings depict tropical...
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Galactic Mutant Animals What Works Well? What Works…Less Well? Opportunities What’s Adaptable? Six Years Hence: Manuel, the Magnificent Mechanical Man Coming Attractions This week, our Free Culture Book Club reads the remainder of...
Sweet potato leaves are edible, and a delicious traditional food. While Americans know the sweet, starchy tubers, around the world both the tubers and tender green leaves are eaten where the plants are grown. Edible is an understatement...
At the last Interesting I threatened to come up with a plan to do 'other things'. I love the feeling at Interesting and it'd be nice to have it happen at other times and places, I've never quite worked out how to do this BUT I'm now...
I find that it is now very easy to write a lot of software. In the past, if I was writing this much software I would take that as a strong signal that I was become a better developer. Now, I write more software than ever but the link...
Sheryl and I went to Read by the Sea earlier this month — nice, if far too short. Apple Maps took us on a route I'd never been on, and Sheryl hadn't seen since she was a kid. Read by the Sea was held in River John, a small place I'd...
I've performed a talk at the last three EMFs - so this time I decided to go purely as a tourist. It made things much more relaxing. No waking up from a stress dream that my laptop didn't work. No casually dropping my talk into every...
It’s time once more for another Saturday update of activity at the Open Journal of Astrophysics. Since the last update we have published a further nine papers, bringing the number in Volume 9 (2026) to 160 and the total so far published...
Always read Kevin Kelly
Solod (So) is a subset of Go that translates to regular C — with zero runtime, manual memory management, and source-level interop. It's designed for two main audiences: Go developers who want low-level control without having to learn...
Pearl crescent butterfly, Raccoon Creek Wildflower Reserve, 18 July 2026 (photo by Kate St. John) 25 July 2026 July is Bug Season. This week they took center stage at Raccoon Wildflower Reserve, Frick Park and Aspinwall Riverfront Park...
And I go back to this idea because in all fairness, where else can I go?Where else can I go if I have no better place than this?Who else can I turn to if I have no one else?And if I have no one else, then let me turn to you here.Or, at...
#OurWorldIsAwesome – Edition 22 | Context on this series – we live in a beautiful world and National Parks are akin to the crown jewels of this planet. These landscapes remind us of the fine balance and complexity woven into the fabric...
It's been a minute. So I saw the doc on Thursday. Great visit. She's younger than I thought, and an army veteran. Served two tours in Iraq as an enlisted medic. We talked about current events. We are of like minds. Did a bunch of blood...