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Whenever the Quad Con comes to town I get excited. The Saint Charles one is always held at the Steel Shop Event Center and is a hoot. Full of vendors, creators, and other cool folks, …

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Welcome to my 182nd gems post. This is where I share some of the latest news, ideas and resources for maths teachers.1.Bad GraphsIt's fun (and important) to share examples of misleading graphs with students. @ticktockmaths …

Yeah, we’re talking D&D again. Setup: The party is in a battle with lamias. They’ve gotten the drop on us with a clever disguise, so one of them has already taken the minute required to …

Join me in person on Sunday 23 April, 3-4pm in The Round George’s function room, 14-15 Sutherland Avenue, Brighton, BN2 0EQ. You will have an opportunity to ASK ME ANYTHING! about the project. And together …

I bought two of these in Norway last spring. One I shared with two friends on top of a local hill at sunset. This one I found in the gel and sports nutrition drawer that’s …

The full Apple Music description of GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR’s new album, NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD, reads “The Montreal collective continues to say so much without saying a word.” This …

Dear friends and loiterers It’s First Sunday, this Sunday and I’m delighted that loiterer and surrealist of distinction Peter Overton is facilitating what promises to be a wonderful wander Meet 2pm Sunday October 6th outside …

By Sophie van Well Groeneveld. Annie Ernaux & Marc Marie, tr. Alison L. Strayer, The Use of Photography (2005; Seven Stories Press / Fizcarraldo Editions, 2024) Annie Ernaux’s The Use of Photography (first published in …

SEGURA, Alain. Une saison avec Marianne: la dernière surréaliste. Bassac: Plein chant (coll. « La font secrète »), 2022 SEGURA, Alain. A Season with Marianne: The Last Surrealist. Trans. Bill Brown. Brooklyn: Common Notions, Dec. …

Hakobune‘s guitar is processed like one hundred Guthries, ringing with reverb abandon as chords stretch into warm, elongated vibrations. The 2019 album Rain Studies is a full-spectrum affair; it alternately plays and washes away intruding …

Over the past few weeks, I've been experimenting with painting in watercolours using my AxiDraw plotter. Watercolour is a medium I enjoy painting in (by hand) as a personal hobby, kind of separate from my …

I just had surgery to repair an incisional hernia near where my appendix used to be. By “just” I mean Thursday week ago. I am recovering well, thank you, though it did knock me for …

Professor Faber’s amazing “talking machine” arrived in Cincinnati to great fanfare in 1872 when that contraption shared a bill at Wood’s Theater with the famous Bandmanns, Daniel and Millicent. The celebrity thespians presented “The Merchant …

I recently took a trip to the Yukon (and two days in Alaska) with my partner Elaine. The trip was mostly hiking focused and generally enjoying the nature. We took almost two weeks which was …