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A grab bag of winter commute clichés; cold, wet, dark, windy … at least I was heading home On the plus side, I love the solitude riding along under the wet gum trees, currawongs and ravens calling and swooping about in the gloom. There’s...
Frances Hamerstrom Spent 40 Years Restoring the Greater Prairie Chicken in Wisconsin — Starting With 50 Birds. She Was One of the First Women Field Biologists in America. She Banded Raptors Into Her 80s. Almost Nobody Knows Her Name. She...
Perhaps I shouldn’t admit this, but I loved the Barbie movie, and have watched it at least three times. I do have four daughters.It’s a funny movie but one scene where the smiles freeze is Gloria’s monologue about the travails of being a...
Watched: For All Mankind Season 5 📺 Finished and enjoyed Season 5, now looking forward to Star City.
When I was young, I wanted nothing more than to one day publish a novel. Over time, I realised that being published will not solve my problems, or make me feel better. I’ve seen people I know achieve the sort of success I longed for and...
Scientists have unravelled more of the mysteries of how tardigrades survive extreme temperatures. And it’s quite weird. CC-licensed photo by Philippe Garcelon on Flickr. You can sign up to receive each day’s Start Up post by email....
The brain surgery was experimental, they said, and I laughed. Surely all brain surgery is experimental, I said, and they laughed, but their laughter was the uncomfortable kind. I told them to go right ahead, and I signed all the forms,...
Sean Hollister, reporting for The Verge: This fall, Nvidia will officially become a consumer PC chipmaker like Intel, AMD, Apple, and Qualcomm, putting a complete computing chip — not just graphics — into the very heart of laptops and...