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Teach the Future's Global Youth Director, Lisa Giuliani, was recently invited to Stanford University for a luncheon conversation about the work of Teach the Future and the impact of our annual ,,World Futures Day - Young Voices event. The discussion took place at The Levinthal-Ng House, also referred to as the "Ng House;" is a hub for anticipatory futures thinking at Stanford. It hosts lectures, seminars, workshops, and informal gatherings …

The books about bees listed here are but a few samples of the delightful troves of bee literature that await the curious reader. As you turn the pages of these volumes, you'll not only add to your knowledge about the invaluable role bees play but will likely begin to view these remarkable creatures in a new light.

Tirzah Garwood, Hornet and Wild Rose, 1950 (Towner)Another lengthy silence and another valid excuse... I've been hard at work putting together the first major museum exhibition devoted to the art of Tirzah Garwood (1908-51) since the memorial exhibition shortly after her death. Tirzah Garwood: Beyond Ravilious will open at Dulwich Picture Gallery in November, and I am absolutely delighted to be bringing the work of this remarkable artist to the …

Want to learn more about how to grow your own food in a planet-friendly way? Join me for these sustainable organic gardening courses in Llandovery. There are four eco-friendly gardening … Sustainable Gardening Workshops at The Dragon’s Garden Read More » The post Sustainable Gardening Workshops at The Dragon’s Garden appeared first on Stephanie Hafferty.

Let's celebrate Mardi Gras with the least likely character ever to wind up in New Orleans during this bacchanalian festival: the true man out of time, Captain America The Shining Knight! He's really only there for the Dixieland jazz. from "Mystery of the Clowning Criminals" in Leading Comics #2 (DC/World's Best Comics, Spring 1942), script by Mort Weisinger (?), pencils and inks by Creig Flessel Oh no! Crooks are robbin' …

It’s been way too long since we had a showstopper of a dessert. When I look over the last four years of archives, it seems that practical, slightly boring and grownup things like salad and dinner have nudged out cooking purely for the purpose of generating and distributing decadent joy. The Celebration Cake category looks like the land that time forgot. And so on this very snowy/slushy day, and the …

China has the world’s largest and most extensively used high-speed rail network, currently over 38,000 km in length, and it aims to reach 70,000 km by 2035. Riding this modern miracle is both enthralling and enraging; the latter because purchasing a ticket and physically getting in/out of each train station is a challenge in itself and the former because you get to sit and watch the country pass by your …

Well, dear readers, after 11+ years and almost 700 blogs, it's time to say goodbye. Many of you will know that Cochrane UK closes at the end of March 2024, with the loss of NIHR funding, and Evidently Cochrane is one of the casualties of this. The post Goodbye Evidently Cochrane appeared first on Evidently Cochrane.

In July 2023 we announced our plan to establish a BBC presence in the distributed collection of social networks known as the Fediverse, a collection of social media applications all linked together by common protocols, as part of our research into social technologies. The experimental BBC Mastodon server at https://social.bbc has now been running for six months and hosts accounts for R&D, Radio 4, and 5 Live. We were aiming …

We’re back again for another exciting installment in what Google Analytics tells me is at least four peoples’ favorite “how to” blog series, Cliché Classics! It’s where I explore some oft-visited photography tropes and see if they can somehow re-ignite the flickering pilot light of the rust-filled water-heater that is my photographic creativity. On tap for this edition, smoke photography! What You Need Incense SticksTo get started with this project …

For the first time in five years, it’s time to add a new entry to my comprehensive Mission: Impossible review series. Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning, the seventh film in the series, was released in theaters and home video with a Part One subtitle, as it and the upcoming eighth film are a 2-part story shot back to back, but its recent streaming release on Paramount+ dropped the Part One …

I responded to something Peter said this morning on Bluesky: Pete’s post on Bluesky. No, I haven’t found the link button yet, maybe they haven’t built one. I responded that, yes, I have been thinking about this too. And, as I’ve found useful over time, seeing the problem for individual and collective perspectives helps. Zoom in, zoom out, repeat. The problem is magnified in the macro; as much as you …

My goal was to preserve some never-before-heard recordings of an incredible Dixieland jazz band made up of mostly Disney employees, the Firehouse Five Plus Two. But along the way, I accidentally discovered an incredible lost song that was cut from Walt Disney’s Cinderella. And you’re about to hear it too. Let’s go. Firehouse Five Plus Who? photo via D23 Here’s the backstory. In the early 1940’s, a bunch of talented …

The clipboard is an easy way to transfer data into the command line from other tools. Use your system’s “paste from clipboard” command to pipe data into other commands for processing. (See also my “copy to clipboard” post.) On macOS, use pbpaste: $ pbpaste | <command> On Windows with PowerShell, use Get-Clipboard: $ Get-Clipboard | <command> If don’t use PowerShell, you can invoke it to run Get-Clipboard: $ powershell.exe -noprofile …