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Don’t I know you? (Trees in the Sierra Nevada) Isn’t it satisfying to know the names of things? I just got back from a backpacking trip to the Sierra Nevada with a bunch of geologists. I learned that those pink rocks are full of...
In this interesting and ambitious book, Christina J. Faraday explores the history of Tudor England through its art and objects. The artwork of a particular period can tell us a lot about key historical events, how important figures chose...
Photo credit: OCWR The more I volunteer for the American Red Cross, the more I learn about everything this organization does for the community. Recently, I was recruited to work on installing smoke alarms in homes that either have...
Another week of hot hot temperatures requires some scorching riffs to match. Hopefully there’s some good stuff in this bunch. Hails! Abyssal Rift - death - USAMegascavenger - death - SwedenBurial Ruthless - death - VenezuelaInvocation...
Painted by Briton Rivière, this oil painting (usually dated as created in 1885) shows the reunion between Ulysses (also known as Ulysses), finally returned to Ithaca after twenty years (Troy!) and his faithful dog Ulysses. This video by...
Rapido Trains UK announced their 00 Gauge USATC S160 2-8-0 back in August 2003. They have now arrived including 926004 USATC S160 No.2356 in Wartime Grey. Although technical not running on the Southern Railway during my usual 1946 to...
Duncan Rawlinson created this image with AI, part of his ongoing blend of contemporary photography and artificial intelligence. A ghost of a woman turns mid-step, and the motion renders her white gown as long streaks of light against a...
"The Dead" is a 1996 science fiction short story by Michael Swanwick. It is about a company that re-animates dead people - using zombies as a cheap form of labor. Non-Spoiler Summary In A Nutshell: "The Dead" follows Donald, a man who is...
2015 contemporary police mystery, seventh in Cleeves' Vera Stanhope series. In rural Northumberland, the house sitter for the local Big House is found dead beside the road, though it's not a hit and run. When his flat is checked, there's...
The End of Oak Street (2026) • View trailerTURKEY: No stars (out of five); rated PG-13, despite considerable violence and goreAvailable via: Movie theatersBy Derrick Bang • Published in The Davis Enterprise, 8.16.26This film fails —...
2000 AxySoft Platform: PC Abattoir in Cosmos was an unreleased shoot-em’-up game developed around 2000 by the Russian shareware game company AxySoft (known for creating the relatively popular 3D Qix/Xonix clone AirXonix). According to...
Phoenix rising by the sun in the Aberdeen BestiarySource: University of Notre DameIt has been intensely hot again this week and I was listening on the news this morning to reports of fires in the Midlands. It made me think of these lines...
Manage .env files across Git worktrees with Dottler, a local Rust CLI that imports, stores, and dumps project environment variables without a server.
Didn’t get up until nearly 10a.m. Did all the mowing and some weeding as well. Kitten seems to be settling down ok. Went to the pub at night. Quite warm but cloudy.
I've left it late getting to Beak, a brewery which shares its Sussex home town with the redoubtable Harvey's. But it looks like they complement each other well: Harvey's being staunchly traditional while Beak is colourful, playful and...