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Happy weekend! And whew, I need it. Books acquired this week I told myself I was really going to try not to get any more books before my birthday, but I’d forgotten that I’d preordered Dinosaur Sanctuary volume eight, and then one of my...
And just like that July is over. Here’s my seven months of photos, one for each day. As I was a way for some of the month it was quite hard to only pic one image to represent my holiday adventures.
11:48 - Today is the Swiss National day, the day the Swiss Confederation was founded. The typical thing to do is go for a farm brunch. But me? I'm blogging allll day! I miss daily blogging but I gotta attend to my other hobbies,...
In two days I am finally finishing with my fuckass degree. This monday we’re going to have our very final presentations, where we will show our final projects and get graded for them. Afterwards I am free. …Well, free is a relative term....
Here’s a short round-up of maths news from this month. The 2026 Fields medals have been awarded to Yu Deng, John Pardon, Jacob Tsimerman and Hong Wang. The Fields Medal is awarded to recognize outstanding mathematical achievement for...
What’s going on, Internet? I jumped on YouTube and found six new Miley Cyrus videos sitting there waiting for me. Six of them. Was this the rollout of a new album? Why hadn’t I heard about this already? It wasn’t. They’re just videos for...
Video transcript: Did you know that there is a performance space at the back of the Calder Bookshop on the Cut, opposite the Young Vic? I didn’t until the brilliant blogger Lou Reviews asked me if I would join her for an Edinburgh...
The first Weekend Reading every month can be read by anyone on the Monevator website. Subscribe for free to our email newsletter or become a member to ensure you see the rest. What caught my eye this week. Would you be happy handing over...
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propaganda is not just about politics, it is about controli do not buy this narrative that the job competition is awful, we are all doomed, AI will take all our jobs, IT is dying. the layoffs happen because of the financial crisis (which...
This image was actually an accident (as is so often the case). I wanted to take a direct shot of the rainbow. But the autofocus decided to focus on the raindrops. By the time I noticed, the moment had already passed. And it just so...
After I published my Bye, Bye, Bear Blog! post, Khoaly mailed me and invited me to participate in their Bearblog Carnival. I couldn't resist... If you can have dinner with anyone in the world, who would that be?When I was younger, I had...
Another month, another roundup post. This month has been very… exercise-y. Which is, for the record, not normal for me. For the previous year my only source of exercise has basically been walking, but that’s not a great fitness activity...
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 three papers, bringing the number in Volume 9 (2026) to 163 and the total so far published...
There’s plenty of activity at Whimsy Pit this morning with Harry and his Hunslet 0-6-0 steamer pushing some old iron ore hoppers about from here to there and there to here, and occasionally a mix of the two. Quite what they’re doing in...