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Although there is much that we don’t know about William Shakespeare the man, we can say confidently that he was not an individual who liked to be typecast. Right after completing his Comedy of Errors, a play so thin it threatened to blow...
We were kindly sent a copy of Claudia de Rham’s new book ‘The Beauty of Falling’, and asked irregular contributor Elinor Flavell to write this review. Claudia de Rham’s “The Beauty of Falling” is not just a book about gravity: it is a...
Things that would have been tweets back in the olden times. • Spotify have reverted back to their original app icon. I know the reason for the disco ball one, but it was just awful. • Short notice plans are afoot for summer trip back...
For a long time I’ve wanted to add Spirographs to my (awesome 🙂 ) drawing app for kids, Kidz Fun Art, and today it’s ready! There was quite a bit of fun mathematics in getting it to feel natural and work with all sizes of circles, but it...
On Wednesday, I wrapped up my running sub-feature from the last four months of looking at Playmates ill-fated SeaQuest DSV tie-in toyline. Much like the show, it certainly showed a lot of promise early on, but despite the quality of the...
by John Boston The July 1971 Amazing, like the previous issue, is fronted by a bright and initially puzzling cover, this one by Dan Adkins, which resolves on closer scrutiny to a stylized human (or robot?) form with a big hole in its...
There are differences in the chemical and physical properties of wax in queen cells and worker comb. This is attributed to a specific group of young worker bees; the queen cell builders. What lessons are there for beekeeping from the...
I came across this book when dipping into Jacques Barzun & Wendell Hertig Taylor’s review of it. They opined that: ‘The author writes clearly and consecutively about an East Anglian village that is severely flooded […] Good scenes of...
The theme of the week may well be unexpected returns, with The Radio Dept. back in action and now Shojoskip – the self-proclaimed “Happy Band From Tokyo” – returning at the end of this month for their first show and recordings in over a...
The filling does turn out to be a little one-note, a pie-shaped puck tasting of beef and onion and not much else. The sweet/sour of the ketchup does act as a foil for the brick of beef and onion--but it's not enough. The post North...
You ever read something and suddenly a whole classification scheme lights up in your head? A thread on X from “stringking42069” showed me a combination of opinions I hadn’t seen before. stringking42069 is a pro-string theory commentator...
Where the technology is vaguely disruptive, but mostly just trendy and kinda boring.