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In June of 2025 heat waves combined with limited winter snowpack set the stage for significant glacier loss, 3% of the volume of Swiss Glacier. This followed on the exceptional losses in 2022 and 2023. This same story in playing out...
Adapting a novel into film or TV requires a ton of decisions. What parts of the book are most important? How can we reduce the cast size, or the number of locations, or do things practically or with effects to meet a budget. Things have...
Today we look specifically at the institutional racism against Jews established by Pope Innocent III in the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215. Of the 70 canons of the council proceedings, the final four were about Jews. It is worth looking...
By Stephen GreenMoonwhisper MagicOSELevel ... 3? The world is shattered, the wizards are gone, and the sea swallows the ruins of their age. Scattered across the waves lie the broken islands of a forgotten empire places of fire, frost,...
Yesterday, I shared Noah Smith’s observation that fifteen years ago, the internet was an escape from the real world — and now the real world is an escape from the internet. Smith recently shared a study that puts hard numbers behind that...
Ben Nadel demonstrates the new rounding precision argument in the round() function in Adobe ColdFusion 2025....
I avoided reading this for a couple of years because but I found it to be incredibly thought provoking. Magid strikes me as an incredibly intellectually honest and rigorous writer. His thinking and sources do not line up neatly with...
🚆🚆🚆 3.5/5 Trains - Better than book two, I like The Iron Tangle. The post The Dungeon Crawler’s Cookbook (Dungeon Crawler Carl #3) by Matt Dinniman appeared first on The Wallflower Digest.
Matthew 14 is one of the Gospel’s most jam-packed and emotionally charged chapters, and it begins with real grief: John the Baptist’s murder. After his disciples take the body and report it to Jesus, “Jesus heard this, he withdrew… to a...
Afterplay sits in an a pretty interesting space in the retro gaming world. At its core, it’s a browser-based platform for playing classic games, removing much of the friction that usually comes with emulation setup, file management, or...
These photos were taken 27 years ago today - on June 17, 1999.
From an early-1900s textbook on managing an architecture or engineering office, an illustration of a daily log book: It looks very familiar. The most foreign thing about it is that all of the office’s drawings are numbered consecutively,...
I am listening to the playlist of hopecore. Music from the 2010s. They all sound kinda hopeful, hence the name. 2010s were a good time. Things were going upwards instead of wars and all that trash. Hate. Recession and robots taking over...
I like restarting my Mac on Saturday mornings. It’s a silly thing really. You don’t really need to restart computers anymore unless some update takes place or there’s something wrong; shutting down on purpose is even more rare. Which is...