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You know that moment, your feet are in the water, it’s cold and you know jumping in will be uncomfortable. The waves start to splash higher to higher, each hit a reminder of how cold the water is. All you have to do is jump in. A moment...
Here at LSOZI, we take a break every Wednesday to explore the old steam/diesel navies from 1833 to 1954, profiling a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their own, which sometimes takes them to the strangest...
At first trying to be the mother that her daughter wanted made her cranky, but this was just because she’d forgotten how to make someone else’s desires her own. Soon she remembered the liquid gold feeling of caring for another. This act...
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He may strike a passing resemblance to David Koresh, but Paul Kelday made better ambient electronic lunar landscapes than the long deceased leader of the Davidian cult in Waco could manage inbetween impregnating as many female followers...
Adam “Experimental History” Mastroianni : Guys who work in bike shops like to joke about bicycle-shaped objects—sure, that mass-produced hunk of metal and plastic has a seat, pedals, wheels, and handlebars, but that doesn’t mean it’s a...
The ancient Romans were impressive engineers. The original water sources near Rome were considered unsafe–fetid swamp water and rivers polluted with human sewage. To supply the increasing population of the economically thriving city,...
One of the promises of the AI-filled future is that we'll all have highly capable autonomous servants "agents" to work for us. Even back in the 1990s, it was a common trope in future-gazing to insist that a person's personal slave agent...
Unlike most of Sassoon's war poems, the verses of this one have a calming and reassuring effect, leaning on lovely pastoral imagery. But there’s also a lingering sense of loss and sorrow throughout — subtle yet deep and unsettling.
This is a big story, certainly bigger than you might have guessed from the coverage. Smart commentators like Patrick Boyle and the Financial Times have been ringing the alarm bell on the state of debt, particularly involving the...
Terra Incognita: The Economics of a Shrinking World - New paper from Jesús Fernández-Villaverde Patrick Norrick Full paper here or if you're on the move ,Notebook LM made a podcast out of the paper Tyler Cowen comments here
Before I headed out to Milan, I looked around for books on the network. Sadly, there didn't seem to be any, or at least none in English, and I didn't have time for a crash course in Italian. I finally found Italian Ways: On and Off The...
I recently started building products focused on healthcare affordability in the US. As I was ramping up on a new space, the biggest question that sparked my curiosity was: how did we get here? This question is the inspiration for this...
I collect handmade folk art masks. Life size Tiger Mask c. 1950-1970 Collection Jim Linderman / Dull Tool Dim Buld and others various.
GORM is an editor for .po files (in case that link is dead, see the Internet Archive) that was originally written by Lars Dybdahl and to which I have been contributing quite a few features in recent years. Since Lars is too busy to do a...