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A neat thing recently is how my son who has been incredibly inflexible on foods he would try now is interested in noodles. Albeit only dry varieties as he’s not into soup whatsoever, it’s quite a departure for him and really nice to see....
My other task at last night’s Celebration of Life for Catherine Hennessey was to assemble photos of her into a slideshow for projection on the in the Carriage House at Beaconsfield.I used this sketch of her house at 222 Sydney Street to...
I wrote a few months ago about my disappointment when viewing the Northern Lights, and becoming aware that no reality could match the psychedelic strangeness of the photos.Anish Kapoor’s retrospective at the Hayward, on the other hand,...
Here’s a sign of the times. Oxford University Press’ booth at the American Library Association’s 150th Annual Conference in June in Chicago features nary a book. Seems like others still believe that libraries are interested in print...
Who are you?My name is Máire Roche, and I’m an author local to Minneapolis, Minnesota, where we have bookstores, lakes, and lots of long o’s in our words. I used to work as a teacher, but now I’m a full-time author (who teaches martial...
A classic investigation wall appears in Indemnity (dir. Travis Taute, 2021). ▲ Indemnity (dir. Travis Taute, 2021) ▲ Indemnity (dir. Travis Taute, 2021) ▲ Indemnity (dir. Travis Taute, 2021) ▲ Indemnity (dir. Travis Taute, 2021)
Is new technology that replaces a worker a good thing? We have a tendency, it seems to me, to believe that most previous inventions turned out to have overall net social benefits, but to be worried that all future inventions will instead...
Neuroscientists have long assumed that when a brain region becomes more active, more blood flows to it. That assumption is the entire basis of functional magnetic resonance imaging. A new paper now says it's wrong for about 40% of the...
Tags: #photos #nature The Mill Pond is a “nature spot” near my MIL’s house on Long Island. A trail circumnavigates the preserve, looping around the large pond and up the Bellmore Creek that both feeds and drains the pond. The northern...
Often when I work for Dromgoole’s at a pen show, I will have several people ask for the same ink. Inevitably, an influencer or two will have posted about a particular ink. Sometimes its a video or a TikTok but when I was setting up Link...
There’s often things left behind on the coast. This was a stray slippah at Mahukona.
The missing getting started guide for dérive Linux, how to take a closer look at it.
We were in London most of last week as I was judging beer for the International Beer Challenge. The trip didn't start off too well as the train into Euston was over two hours late. A broken down train in front of ours at a network choke...
How do you sell the idea of free speech to people who worry that words hurt? In the last few years, there have been increasing demands, most prominently on college campuses, to shut down hateful speech. A defense of free speech needs to...
Many a times you are fighting with demons in your mind that only exists in your mind and nowhere else. You are fighting against the perceived slights, against people who were indifferent to you, who didn’t support you, who belittled you,...