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Chloe Okuno’s Top FiveChloe Okuno is an American director and screenwriter from Los Angeles. She has directed the feature film Watcher (2022), which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, and the segment "Storm Drain" for …

1. Close Your Eyesby Victor Erice"The unluckiest filmmaker in the world," was how Ben Sachs described Victor Erice. The funding cut or witheld entirely for projects realized and unrealized, years without financing, dear friends dying …

Last summer as I lamented that my research didn't have real world implications, one of the comments mentioned the sumcheck protocol used for zero-knowledge SNARKs. I tried to figure out the connection back then but …

The power of negative thinking: Combinatorial and geometric inequalities Two weeks ago, I participated (remotely) in the discrete geometry Oberwolfach meeting, and Ramon van Handel gave a beautiful lecture about the equality cases of Alexandrov-Fenchel …

Zig-Zag paths and neusis constructions of a heptagon and a nonagon (\(\mathbb{M}\)), new article by Dave Richeson and Dan Lawson. annie rauwerda tells the world why Wikipedia and Wikipedia editing is great in a letter …

I see the dear old Church of England, in the person of the Bishop of Norwich, is calling for the 'rewilding' of churchyards, in the interests of 'biodiversity'. Well, I don't know where the Bishop …

When I got the new (to me) car it only had one key – although it had two fobs, it was just that the actual keyblade on one of them was missing. (Which is quite …

An update to this blog is severely overdue, it appears. I hadn't realised it had been so long since I had last posted.There's been no big leap forward since the autumn but there have been …

From a press release from Victoria Prentis, the Attorney General: Valdo Calocane’s crimes were horrific and have shocked a nation. He brutally killed three innocent people, and violently attacked three other victims. Their experiences will …

Yesterday, Marvel announced the cast of the upcoming(ish) Fantastic Four film, and the announcement was Valentine's Day themed because... Reed and Sue are a couple? (I've heard that there was a leak imminent and Marvel …

Temple of Naga MalicindaMy players are currently in a megadungeon, this is one of the levels.It can pretty much fit into any big dungeon with levels or areas.Now available in The Store. Five Bucks.

An alphabet of still-undiscovered names across the style spectrum It’s the ultimate baby name treasure: an undiscovered name. As name styles shift and expand, these hidden gems become harder and harder to find. But we’ve …

Like Johnny Thunder, we are stuck in the 1950s. Let's read some more 1956 stories recommended by Judith Merril, this time by authors whose names start with the letter "R." Last time we did this …

Nabokov arises early in the morning and works. He does his writing on filing cards, which are gradually copied, expanded, and rearranged until they become his novels. The Paris Review: The Art of Fiction No. …