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The researchers showed participants four knots that are physically similar but have a hierarchy of strength. People were asked to look at the knots, two at a time, and point to the strongest one. The strongest is A, the reef knot. Credit: Khamar Hopkins/Johns Hopkins University “We’re just not able to extract a salient sense of a knot’s internal structure by looking at it,” Croom said. “It’s a nice case …

Morning all, here’s a quick Saturday round-up for you. If you watched Mikel Arteta’s press conference yesterday, you might have come away with the same conclusion that I did – which is that a January arrival is, while not impossible, more or less unlikely. The manager was asked what he’d be looking for if he were in the market for an attacking player this month, and said: First of all, …

These color Polaroid photographs of Eric Clapton and George Harrison at Clapton’s Surrey estate Hurtwood Edge taken by Pattie Boyd, ca. 1974.“George phoned one day to say he was in the area and wanted to see us,” Boyd recalled. “I took these photos of him and Eric smoking in the little TV room.”Under the strain of George Harrison’s infidelities and Eric Clapton’s obsessive pursuit, Pattie Boyd made the decision to …

Could a new, fifth force of nature provide some answers to our biggest questions about dark matter and dark energy? We’re working on it. The Standard Model is, for all intents and purposes, the supreme accomplishment of modern physics. It describes four forces of nature, a zoo of particles, and how they all interact. It is perhaps the most successful scientific theory of all time. And it’s fantastically incomplete. It …

I had an enjoyable little discussion with Joe Murray of The Human Podcast, part of his new series, called 10 questions in 10 minutes, in which he asks his interview subjects for short answers to ten quick questions on their … Continue reading →

If the case doesn’t settle, Smartmatic’s defamation trial could happen this year.

Get ready to add books to your TBR pile! As the year comes to a close, we have one burning question for book lovers everywhere: What were your top 5 sapphic reads of 2024? Luckily our readers like to share! We look forward to passing along these recommendations to you daily into the new year. It’s not too late to submit your own top reads and get in on the …

To make progress the Conservative Party needs to acknowledge some of the recent past and move away from it, faster Giles Dilnot “For better or worse, depending on your opinion, Badenoch is not Johnson, Truss, or Sunak. Those that say she’s completely the same just need to keep repeating it to help their own party’s cause. However, she’ll need to do more, soon, to show the difference, and if she …

In celebration (if that’s the right word) of the 25th anniversary (last month) of powers being devolved to the Northern Ireland Assembly, former Committee Clerk Paul Moore has been recounting some stories from the Assembly’s early days. In this fifth (of eight) episodes, a farming crisis looms. How will the recently appointed Agriculture Minister perform under pressure, and how supportive will Ian Paisley’s Committee be in its scrutiny of the …

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In my teens my Grandpa gifted me a first series of books from his collection. In this were the Paul Karau OPC GWR branchline series and I found Hemyock. It wasn’t much later that Dapol re-released the 14xx with improved motor and thoughts turned building my first solo model railway…It was Hemyock, my first love, that fuelled my first documented attempt at ‘proto-freelance’, Stapley. Paul’s book focused only upon termini …

Accidentally discovered something very interesting while messing around with the Photoshop remove tool, which on certain settings uses generative AI to replace out whatever you select with it. In this case, was just playing around removing stuff from a photo of our living room, and saw that the tool was inventing paintings or posters that don’t exist: That one in the corner, I zoomed in on and went through a …

Some time in 2020 I started collecting CD-ROMs from old Macintosh magazines. Whilst the discs are of Japanese origin—because the supply was plentiful during the extended spring clean of lockdown—they contain a great deal of software from all over the world and a lot of it is therefore in English. They’re an amazing source of old gold: sofware, images, demos, documentation, and many other files. As of today I have …

If you’re going to ask me my favorite foundation at the moment, I’d immediately tell you it’s the Kanebo Lively Skin Wear which I got in an event last 2023. After I tried that, most foundations just couldn’t compare. When I saw that Kanebo has launched another foundation, I knew I had to get it. […]

Just over five years ago (over New Year’s) Viv and I visited Los Angeles, and the part we were staying in is now under an evacuation order 😳 I think it’s still only the second-most shocking thing that’s happened in a place I’ve stayed, though, after the metro station I used, like, every day when I visited Santiago in 2013 was reportedly converted into a torture facility by cops (carabineros …