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I have liked May so much this year that I am already missing it. Forty-eight weeks to May 2027. I’ve already circled it in my calendar. Just in the last few days it finally feels like spring. I’ve got more twenty tomatoes outside into...
It’s a Thursday Pressing Concerns! We have four new albums coming out tomorrow below: new ones from Guided by Voices, The Thirsty Giants, Chaepter, and Patois Counselors. Check them out, and if you missed Tuesday’s blog post (featuring...
Examining the narrow “concrete wings” Indiana used to widen early highways, and what they reveal about road evolution.
Back in 2010 the University of Cambridge and the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich launched a six year research programme, led by Simon Schaffer for Cambridge and Richard Dunn and Rebekah Higgitt for Greenwich: ‘The Board of...
Dougald Lamont: Instead of addressing the economic crisis of the pandemic, monetary stimulus made it worse. It has contributed to a global affordability crisis in housing, a private insolvency crisis for tens of millions of people,...
Fancy tea and scones on board a Routemaster while sightseeing in Glasgow or Edinburgh? It’s good to see these fine old buses having a new lease of life.
Here’s a nice description of a Tokyo job quit from Haruki Murakami’s latest novel, The City and its Uncertain Walls: And then one morning I handed my boss a letter of resignation. I couldn’t go on doing this job. I had to remove my body...
My frustration around the gym usually involves knowing if I can do one more rep.
I was cautiously optimistic when Research Ireland was created from the merger of Science Foundation Ireland and the Irish Research Council, but the general thrust seems to be more of the same. Worse, some of the few valuable programmes...