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It’s rare to find business documents from long-gone restaurants, but last weekend I stumbled upon two letters to investors from the Physical Culture Restaurant Company headed by fitness and health food advocate Bernarr Macfadden [shown …

I’ve written the first in a series of six posts that will be coming out with the Streit Council, on the problem of economic integration without political integration. There’s no paywall. You can read it …

Adding Google Web search to FirefoxRecently I read this blog post which highlights some bad practices by Google and also provides a way to make the new web search results tab the default search provider …

Following on from my previous article I added GPS1 (well, GNSS) to my tiny drone – the Meteor 75 Pro. I wanted to add GPS so I could make use of GPS rescue in betaflight …

The key to understanding Benji Nate's intentions as a cartoonist can be found in the introduction to her minicomic Cold Soda #1 (the older one, published by Milk Money Books). It said "Cold Soda is …

[Edited to add: I wrote this post over the weekend and scheduled it to go live on Wednesday (today). I almost postponed it just now, but decided to leave it, in case anyone needs a …

Bev and I fly off to the, sun-soaked, island of Corfu on Wednesday afternoon. Gatwick isn't a particularly pleasant airport from which to start our latest adventure, yet is certainly better than the Luton alternative …

Reflecting on my reading over the past year, I have found that I have been drawn to a considerable amount of historical fiction, most of which takes the lives of marginalised women as a starting …

Baby Blood (1990) When Yanka (Emmanuelle Escourrou) discovers she’s pregnant, she leaves her circus life and abusive boyfriend behind. Her troubles have only begun, however, when her body begins to undergo changes. Yanka moves from …

Nicholas Kalis May 2024Helpful HintThis nicely detailed brass toolbox is meant for attachment to my Fn3 tender on my Oahu Sugar Company. I particularly liked the hinge detail on this casting - even its modeled …

by Laura Luebbert and Lior Pachter Background (by LL) Four years ago, during the first year of my PhD at Caltech, I participated in a journal club organized by the lab I was rotating in. …

Or: what I drank on my holidays. In our perversely unseasonal family holiday in Swanage last year, I ticked off four of the town’s seven pubs and had beers from three different local breweries. This …

I once saw a TikTok video featuring a puzzle: four matches were arranged to form a plus sign, and the challenge was to move one match to create a square. The solution shown differed from …

This is one of Roman Troyen's (PlanePrinter on Patreon) 1/200 scale designs, up-scaled to 1/144 and printed on my elderly Ender 3 in PLA.It's a Handley-Page Hampden, a British medium bomber of the early years …

To slow down time. Life feels longer when there’s more of it to look back on. Take more photos and you preserve more memories. The more you do it, the richer your life looks in …