Prince Street
By Chris Mears.
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Not 2 of 200. Phew!
I really kind of like that Portage Flyer plan and a second variation quickly came to mind. Related Portage Flyer content for a rainy day:
Traingeek – Trains and Photography
I am a photographer who specializes in trains and grain elevators. I like to tell stories through my photos and my blog.
By Steve Boyko.
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10 Questions for Oren B. Helbok
Born in the Bronx in 1965, I ran away from a steam locomotive the first time that I saw one, at age 2, but I very quickly turned around, and since then I have photographed …
Uncle Rod's Astro Blog
By Rod Mollise.
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Issue #609: HOP, HOP, Astro-Hop!
Well, well, well, muchachos… November is almost here, and it looks as if we in Possum Swamp may have dodged a bullet hurricane-wise this season. The skies had been improving since the thunderstorms of summer …
By Rod Mollise, 2,002 words
Astro Bob | Duluth News Tribune
Bob King's 'Astro Bob' is astronomy for everyone. Mars, Milky Way, Northern Lights, constellations, star gazing and much more.
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Astro Bob: Appreciating the Pleiades
Learn more about one of the brightest, most distinctive star clusters in the sky.
Grand Old Movies
Blogging about Hollywood's golden-age films.
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Agnes Ads
The great Agnes Moorehead should be remembered for her classy roles. An actress of remarkable subtlety (as seen in Without Honor, which I wrote about here), she could, as the saying goes, say much with …
By Grand Old Movies, 2,594 words
Criminal Element
Mysteries, Thrillers, and all things Killer!
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On How Art Experts Make the Perfect Literary Detectives by Sarah Jost, Author of The Estate
Clearly, when creating his famous protagonist Robert Langdon, a Harvard professor of symbology who finds clues in famous artworks to uncover international conspiracies, immortalised on screen by Tom Hanks, Dan Brown was onto something. Experts …
Classic Film and TV Café
Devoted to classic movies and television series, ranging from the silent film era to the 1980s.
By Rick29.
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We Name the TV Characters...You Name the Series!
We thought we'd try out a new game this month! For each numbered item below, we have listed three characters from the same TV series. Your task is to name the TV series! Most of …
Joel David Hamkins
mathematics and philosophy of the infinite.
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Determinateness of truth does not come for free from determinateness of objects, Singapore, November 2024
This will be a talk for the (In)determinacy in Mathematics conference at the National University of Singapore, 20-22 November 2024 Abstract. I shall discuss the question whether we may regard determinateness of truth as flowing …
By Joel David Hamkins, 59 words
Azimuth
From math to physics to earth science and biology, computer science … centered around the theme of what scientists, engineers and programmers can do to help save a planet in crisis.
By John Baez.
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ASKAP J1935+2148
MeerKAT is an amazing array of 64 radio telescopes in South Africa. Astronomers want to expand this to the Square Kilometer Array, which will actually consist of thousands of telescopes in South Africa and Australia. …
David Fisher, Carving Explorations | Blog
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Ambrosia Maple Bowl — Butterflies Included
I should take my own advice. I tell people to be careful to look for the tiniest checks in the end grain of a log because they will open up as the bowl dries. If …
TimeTestedTools
Vintage Tool Information - Hand Tool Restorations - Tool Collecting - Vintage Tools.
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The Sargent Vintage Hand Plane Tote Differences
It would take an intensive study to determine all the differences in totes among the various models and sizes of Sargent hand planes.
The Plainspoken Scientist - AGU Blogosphere
The science communication blog of AGU’s Sharing Science program.
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What makes a river a river?
Close your eyes and picture a river…go on, do it! What did you see? Did you picture a clear, deep mountain stream? A raging river in a steep gorge? A creek with grassy banks and …
By Shane Hanlon, 592 words
Robb Owen - My writing
My collected writing on topics ranging from coding and the web industry, to linguistics and natural language processing.
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Getting something from Nothing
In the last couple of years I have developed a complicated relationship with my phone. Whether it's scrolling past an endless wall of hate on Twitter or feeling my mood buckle under the weight of …
Rach Smith's digital garden
A developer building software for CodePen, wife, mother of two, productivity nerd and recovering screen addict.
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Social skills
A conversation about the day's playground shenanigans with one of my kids had me asking him: "do you know what social skills are?". He replied "no, what's that?". After I explained, he was keen to …
Caustic Cover Critic
One man's endless ranting about book covers and design...
By James Morrison.
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Updated 10 months ago
Best of 2023
The third of my year-in-reading columns has gone up over at Dorian's blog: the best stuff I read in 2023.