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The First Quarter Moon is Thursday August 20. The Lunar X is visible on the 20th. Saturn is rising just around 10:00 pm local time. Mars passes close to the stars mu and eta Geminorum. In the evening, Venus is coming closer to the bright...
A new paper just came out, The Maximum-Area Small Polygon Problem. The paper solves the problem of finding, for each n, the n-gon with diameter 1 and maximum area. For odd n, the solution is what you might expect: a regular n-gon. I...
Flash “The Age of Cancer” by Vajra Chandrasekera (2026): Riffing on a classic and playing a bit with formatting. Short Stories “The Necromancer’s One Weakness” by R. Lochlann (2026): I felt slightly guilty about how much I enjoyed this...
And so it came to pass that Lex informed me fresh tomato sandwiches were ready.Not a dish I've traditionally sought or enjoyed. I respected fruits and vegetables and tried to eat them for nutrition, but I'd never been infatuated with raw...
The first recording today starts with the end of Louie. Then it’s Kerwhizz – Egypt World. Media Centre Description: Kerwhizzitor is in control, and if teams Twist, Kit and Ninki answer the kerwhizzical questions correctly, they will earn...
Part 1, Part 2Last installment for a while, since as you'll see shortly I am really stretching what qualifies as the Mythos. But I suppose that is part of the point. Anyway, fun series, definitely will return to the format in the future...
Released by ECM in 1984, 15 Jahre ECM Works has become a largely forgotten branch of the “Works” series, whose better-known volumes offered compact portraits of individual artists. This compilation widens the aperture across the label’s...
The Watergirls is a one-off, one-time, musical project lead by Alan “Teamy” Thomson. It features a global array of collaborators – lead vocalist Mhairi McClymont, Shellac’s bassist, Bob Weston, CC:Disco, Fantastic Twins, LCD...
The Artificial Humors (2016, Gabriel Abrantes) Half-hour short about a soccer ball-shaped floating robot, its AI programmer, and the girl it’s in love with. The three of them leave the village where it’s been training and go to Sao...
The one moment that changed my impression of The End of Oak Street was during the end credits. The man sitting next to me turned to the person he was with and said, “That was such a good movie.” I’d been sitting in the theater...
Come on in A hibiscus flower seen on an evening walk. And a bee who accepted the invitation and covered itself in pollen! Quote of the Day ”The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice...
Gordon White tells a story at the end of this episode about a co-worker whose mother had died. She went back to Yorkshire to be with her sister on Christmas when, on Christmas Day, they found a butterfly flying around the kitchen. The...
Pierre de Ronsard (1524-1585), Odes 2.18 (tr. Malcolm Quainton and Elizabeth Vinestock): My mind is thoroughly exhausted from too much study of Aratus' Phaenomena; it is time I had some fun, and went out into the fields to play. Good...
AUDACIOUS BOOKCLUB HAPPENINGSOur August bookclub selection is The Simp by Roshan Sethi. We will be in conversation with Roshan on August 26th at 8 pm EST/5 pm PST. Registration is open. For newcomers, there is a bookclub FAQ if you have...