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Nicholas Shackel (Cardiff) has a new book out that might be of interest to readers, and there is a discount code available that Nick has asked me to pass on. Details below.Bertrand’s Paradox and the …

I don't know if there's anything that can be added to what Kelvin posted. I can only repeat it.

All Happy Families is director/co-writer Haroula Rose’s highly amusing foray into dysfunctional family dynamics. With all of the film’s endearing characters’ quirks and through all of the plot’s engaging twists, everything is wrong — until …

I’ve finally got around to finishing pretty comprehensive support for “remapping” pixel values from images within my image-processing infrastructure, so as to be able to scale or remap pixel values in an image to another …

1987 Starvision Platform: Commodore Amiga A very short entry now for a title called Gigaball that was due for release by short-lived Danish software house – Starvision. The game was mentioned by founder Sören Grönbech …

The Zone of Interest (2023) Yes, another entry on A24. I didn’t expect for this topic to continue as a series, but the indie studio keeps doing intriguing and unusual things that most studios wouldn’t …

Grouping items in an array is one of those things you've probably done a load of times. Each time you would have written a grouping function by hand or perhaps reached for lodash's groupBy function. …

Find out more about growing perennial veg and other perennial edibles on this short day course at the homestead. I am looking forward to hosting this event on October 12th […] The post Perennial Edibles …

I’ve started work on sourcing and painting up some scenic elements and terrain for the 15mm Terminator project, and am kicking things off with some wrecked cars and a suitably scrappy junkyard.I’ve found that 15mm …

"New Watercolor and gouache on paper study of a Eastern woodland Native American woman later 18th Century. This was a commission piece. A nice break from painting soldiers faces, but now back to work on …

Roll up, roll up, roll up and welcome to the two hundred and twenty ninth Carnival of Mathematics! 229 is a prime number, and that in itself is interesting. Its the “elder” of a set …

A heart shaped topiary installation at a lookout in Ehime prefecture. S acred: the power, being, or realm understood by religious persons to be at the core of existence and to have a transformative effect …

Querido Jean Genet, Te conocí por primera vez a través de la saliva el hermoso rostro de un muchacho a quien sus compañeros (¿bullies? ¿amantes? ¿redentores ángeles de crueldad?) bañaban en escupitajos. Todd Haynes te …

“the obscene shape of the atom-bomber, laying a trail like a filthy slug upon Constable’s and Gainsborough’s sky. England of the Nissen hut, the ‘pre-fab’, and the electric fence, of the high barbed wire around …

Editor’s note: This is the first installment of “Street Views,” a twice-monthly column by Streets.mn board member and contributor Joe Harrington. As he described in our recent newsletter, the column will raise issues “relevant to …