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From In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette, by Hampton Sides (Knopf Doubleday, 2014), Kindle pp. 55-57: Throughout the first week of July 1876, the week of America’s hundredth birthday, the...
Tall evergreens frame distant snow-capped mountains at Colorado's Rocky Mountain National Park. The post In the Winter Forest appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.
APEX 26.1 was finally released yesterday. Learn how to quickly set it up locally and test the new features with uc-local-apex-dev.
This week on the People and Blogs series we have an interview with RMF, whose blog can be found at baccyflap.com/prs/blog. Tired of RSS? Read this in your browser or sign up for the newsletter. People and Blogs is supported by the "One a...
The rich and powerful used to pose with a hand inside their waistcoat, like Napoleon. Now they pose with thumbs up, like Trump.
Talking of Examinations, I saw an article on the BBC website about a recent Higher Maths paper in Scotland which has generated complaints and a petition because it was allegedly unfair. The introduction to the petition states: This is...
Sometime in the late 1990s, I was asked to be a token skeptic on a TV show featuring three people who claimed they were immortal. The production team didn’t take them very seriously. Probably no one did, but the three – all Americans –...
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For most of my life, my writing process was more like gestation than construction; an essay or story would grow in my head until I put it on paper fully-formed. When a high-school English teacher wanted us to include a “jot outline” of...
Hello everyone! Scroll to the end to see where to find the free Exadata Internals & Advanced Performance Metrics seminar videos (4 hours) that are old, but still completely useful and relevant even in 2026! The summer is near, it’s time...
BRIDGE Almost dark and as near as we dare goto the terrible onward of thundering machinery.Kneeling on the near slope black with creosote, burnt brush, with the monster coming on and on, panic rising. We held it; it thumped in our...
If there's evolution in the world, then truth also evolves.