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In the Netherlands, water management is stubbornly technocratic, driven more by metrics than people. As climate change upends calculations, can planners find new modes of ecological repair? Read on Places Journal

Enough of this. Enough. Equivocal or vague principles, as a rule, will make your life an uninspired, undirected, and meaningless act. This is taken from Alphabetical Diaries, a remarkable book I am reading by Sheila Heti, composed of many thousands of sentences drawn from her decades of diaries and presented in alphabetical order. It starts like this: A book about how difficult it is to change, why we don’t want …

I am driving home at night hands gripping the wheel empty tarmac surrounding me fertiliser stinging my nostrils The engine shaking all the space between my scattered atoms as white lines converge scattered atoms of steel shake in engine vibrations fertiliser drifts from nearby fields the empty tarmac sighs someone else’s hands grip a steering wheel as a car drives on, into darkness.

In a recent preprint, Siddharth Bhandari and Abhishek Khetan have improved the decades old upper bound on the trifference problem by using a clever combinatorial argument involving extremal graph theory. As discussed in my previous posts a trifferent code of length is a subset of with the property that for any three distinct elements of , there exists a coordinate position at which these codewords have distinct values, that is, …

I often wonder: when did we stop? When did we stop caring, when did we stop being human? When did we stop seeing in the other a human being? I have always had those questions in my head, maybe because I grew up with this heavy guilt of coming from a country that killed six […]

The J-Find Visa enables recent graduates to engage in activities such as job hunting, business startup, and other income-generating endeavors within Japan — opportunities that were previously inaccessible to do so. I was one of the first recipients of this visa, which provided me with the legal foundation to reside in Japan for the initial year, allowing me to make pivotal connections, lay the groundwork for starting a business, open …

Compliments of u/ceech8, who "uploaded a PDF of [Stahl's Essential Psychopharmacology] chapter 3 and asked [chatgpt4] to make an outline of key concepts" and then "make a helpful diagram summarizing those concepts for a graduate level audience", then posted the result to r/psychiatry: comments

Plein Air is certainly the best cafe in Hyde Park. (Arguably Build Coffee is fine as well, but they are only open about 5 hours a week.) But it is also true to say that Plein Air is (at best) … Continue reading →

But you don't lean into your coach and yell at him! That's a BIG NO.

by S. Astrid Bin Editor’s Note: Longtime fans of this site may be familiar with its “tag line,” “Stop watching sci-fi. Start using it.” So I was thrilled when a friend told me they had seen Astrid present how she had made an instrument from a Star Trek episode real! Please welcome Astrid as she tells us about the journey and lessons learned from making something from a favorite sci-fi …

There's currently a lull in our planning for Toby and a temporary reprieve from paperwork, so I'm enjoying decompressing a little with regular walks out in the woods. Although winter still has the countryside in it's grip, there are signs that a change is coming, and the first flower of the year is now in bloom, the glorious snowdrop. I never feel right picking wildflowers to bring home, they all …

I like to keep an eye out for cool shapes during my walks and use them as inspiration for my #SidewalkFriends drawings. It’s like my version of hunting for Pokémon. I did a double take when I first saw this orange traffic cone on 29th street. I could have sworn it winked at me. So I grabbed a quick photo and used it as inspiration for today’s Sidewalk Friends sketch. …

I have a bookcase problem. IKEA Billy and BD Albums don't mix perfectly. Is there a fix? The post The Problem with a European Comic Book Collection appeared first on PIPELINE COMICS.

This zine is for anyone interested in kitsch from an everyday or academic perspective. The author provides her own kitsch objects, alongside some well-known ones, in order to explore and critique kitsch throughout its history. The zine is A5 size and includes text and black and white images (highly illustrated). The cover is coloured card (colour not specified). The contents includes, among other subjects: kitsch from the 19C, sixties kitsch …

Asda is adding 110 more convenience stores this month alone that will enable it to make further inroads into the grab-and-go food category and it is not alone as all the major supermarkets and symbol groups like Spar are experimenting with their food-to-go models. They recognise that we are now in an era that is much more powered by grab-and-go and delivery-only propositions. This poses a big question for foodservice …