The Ideophone
Sounding out ideas on language, vivid sensory words, and iconicity.
By Mark Dingemanse.
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Student projects as affordances for serendipity
Lab rotations are a regular feature of work in my research groups. Students join the lab and figure out a project they want to work on themselves. While this typically results in at least a …
By Mark Dingemanse, 810 words
Uneasy Money
Commentary on monetary policy in the spirit of R. G. Hawtrey.
By David Glasner.
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Thoughts and Details on the Fiscal Theory of the Price Level
The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level has been percolating among monetary theorists for over three decades: Eric Leeper being the first to offer a formalization of the idea, with Chris Sims and Michael Woodford …
By David Glasner, 3,006 words
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The Undercover Economist.
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Beard taxes and other lessons for Rachel Reeves
When Ernest Borgnine auditioned for the title role of Marty, he knew this could be his big break. Typecast as a bit-part thug, Borgnine was nearly 40, losing his hair and putting on weight. Marty …
By Tim Harford, 984 words
Adrian Roselli
I have worked with companies of all sizes, from independents to Fortune 5s, to help stand up accessibility teams and processes.
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A11y Camp: Keynote Slides
Download a 3.6MB tagged PDF of my slides or try the embedded view if your browser displays PDF inline. The text in the slides is set in Atkinson Hyperlegible. The PDF is exported from PowerPoint, …
By Adrian Roselli, 970 words
Adam Argyle
Website for Adam Argyle: Teacher, Speaker, CSSWG member, and creator of Open Props and VisBug.
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November games we're playin
Super exciting set of games here! Been really fun going through each with the fam. Windblown may be a bit violent, but we've been playing Dead Cells, Hades II and Cult of the Lamb… so …
My Granddad is Keeping Busy
My granddad's diaries.
By Anne Shewring.
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Monday 18th November, 1963
Blowing a gale today and showers. Car washing. K.S.G. making 209 to date. A big pig to burn today and about 100 fowl. Brushed up round bins. No 1 boiler on red this a.m.
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Ten minutes past deadline
Sub-editing when the clock's run out but the copy hasn't.
By Ed Latham.
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Notice of interruption to service
When this blog reached its five-year anniversary in 2018, I wrote a summary of the conclusions it had reached so far, and I vaguely thought at the time that, should it run for another five …
Victorian Paris
Life in 19th Century Paris.
By Iva Polanski.
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From Diligence to High-Speed Trains: Paris to Lille Then and Now
The railway brought humanity out of isolation by reducing both time and effort of travel Picture Paris in the early 1830s: a city of narrow, winding streets, where the fastest way to travel was by …
Fresh Mud
A blog about living with FSH muscular dystrophy.
By Timothy Griffin.
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Pain in the night
Having regular pain can be depressing and demoralising, but waking up in the middle of the night in pain, as I did last night, can be even moreso.For some reason my left knee ached severely …
IBUILDIT Blog
The idea is to chronicle, in words and pictures, the things I’m currently working on and my plans for future projects.
By John Heisz.
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Making a Custom Ceiling with Lighting – Sunburst Pattern
-Black Friday // Cyber Monday- MAKER’S MOB BIGGEST SALE EVER CLICK HERE This project proves that the best laid plans don’t always guarantee success. I did a lot of planning before I started, but still …
Triple Eh?
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"Cecconoid Amiga"
The Commodore Amiga Port of Cecconoid -- by Ian Ford [h0ffman] & published by Thalamus -- is out! As you can see, Thalamus have put serious care and attention into the production of the big …
30Squares
I write about making miniature things with detours into a few other arts, crafts, and sciences.
By J D Lowe.
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VIA's Ready?
I saw this VIA Rail ad pop up in my YouTube recommendations yesterday. In some respects it's charming, but in others it's ripe for satire. It comes at a time when VIA is experiencing considerable …
The Thesis Whisperer
Just like the horse whisperer - but with more pages.
By Professor inger mewburn.
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Why you need a Nobot
I’ve been working with Claude, an AI assistant from Anthropic, for about a year. We’ve become… close. People laugh when I call Claude my ‘work husband’. I’m not really joking. Like a good work spouse, …
By Thesis Whisperer, 2,750 words
Kapowski Reads
I’m here to talk about books. Books I’ve read. Books I’ve loved. Books I’ve loathed.
By Caley Kapowski.
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Trying to Find a Scary Book
I have been wanting to read Joe Hill’s N0S4R2 (or N0S4A2 in the US) for so long! I got this second hand in a library sale…maybe last year. Definitely not this year as I’m 11 …
By Caley Kapowski, 68 words
Save vs. Total Party Kill
This is a blog about D&D.
By Ramanan Sivaranjan.
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Negative Space Reprise
This is an update to an earlier blog post I wrote on rules and OSR games, which was published in the zine Mixed Success, which you should also check out. Playing four sessions of Thor …
By Ramanan Sivaranjan, 1,146 words