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Last rays of sunshine before the rain started.
Here are two fun, random slide scans for you! Starting with this 1969 photo of several cars preparing to experience an incredible gravitational anomaly known as MAGNETIC HILL! There are a number of Magnetic Hills around the world, and I...
Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got bottle shops, pickle beer and cocktail lounges. First, some news: the Wetherspoon pub chain has decided enough is enough and banned customers...
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Letterboxd has a very strange feature on their account stats page which shows you the "nanogenres" you have watched the most of in the current calendar year. Perplexingly, the stats page does not explain what a nanogenre is. You have to...
This Bird Hunts by Dancing. This bird makes worms think it’s raining. The woodcock taps the ground, waits for movement, and then finds them without ever seeing them. Woodcock Stomp? I never heard of this. True?
An end of week recap “Think not of the books you’ve bought as a ‘to be read’ pile. Instead, think of your bookcase as a wine cellar. You collect books to be read at the right time, the right place, and the right mood.” – Luc van...
In recent weeks, I met several talented, driven, experienced engineers and leaders working hard to bootstrap their ideas into startups. I call them brownfield refugees — people who left or were ejected from established (often brownfield)...
I do enjoy a cup of tea from time to time. My happy tea is camomile. Tea Is So Hot Right Now, by Bettina Makalintal, Eater Where's The Beef?, by Erin Somers, Harper's Magazine Should You Believe in Fate?, by Joshua Rothman, New Yorker
One of the most memorable scenes in Inception sees Leonardo DiCaprio's character walking through Paris as the city appears to fold in on itself, with entire streets rising from the ground and bending over the characters below. The...
9. Pevsner’s Sycamore, Oxford 10. Principal’s Horse Chestnut, Oxford
Having notched up one hundred shows for the National Rural Touring Forum before becoming resident in various west end shows I'm going back on the circuit. The impressive century record never helped me sell me to certain potential...
A flip of the looking glass… Image by Author, created in AI. Note: This is a continuation of a story previously shared, found here. Basic summation, should you need one: Our two characters, one younger, one considerably older, are in the...