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Subscribe WordPress Facebook Twitter Instagram If you enjoy reading please consider “buying me a pint”, this will help to cover my hosting and image hosting and help to ensure further trips can go ahead!BUY ME A PINT Chesterfield Pub Tour: A Historic Journey Through Pubs Today, I find myself returning to Chesterfield to participate in the Chesterfield Great Historic Pub Tour organised by Shaun. Renowned as both “The Heart of …

Image: Simon Pauly/Bachtrack.[Extended cut of a review published on Bachtrack.] Luigi Nono, Como una ola de fuerza y luz; Gustav Mahler, Symphony No. 4 Sarah Aristidou (soprano), Tamara Stefanovich (piano), Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Joana Mallwitz (conductor), Konzerthaus: Großer Saal, Berlin, 14th September 2024 In his hundredth anniversary year, Luigi Nono is perhaps more often spoken about than performed. A fixture of the German new music scene for many years, his equal …

A theme park in Istanbul shrinks what is otherwise too gigantic to comprehend, transforming visitors into citizens and sultans of an imaginary Turkish time and narrative. Read on Places Journal

Today’s post is by author Cynthia Swanson. My debut psychological suspense novel, The Bookseller, sold to Harper in 2013 in a pre-empt. I’m not going to lie—it was an amazing deal. The type of deal that compelled me to ask my husband, when I called to break the news, “Are you sitting down?” Amazon • Bookshop By the time The Bookseller released in 2015, Harper had been throwing around the …

It’s been a while since I sat in Zindiya. I seldom visit Moseley anymore. Peacer has changed hands, Carters soon to be replaced with a Japanese “fine dining” concept that I can guarantee will be anything but. I have a Sabai Sabai near my house, and whilst I still occasionally go Chakana, the Dark Horse, or those regrettable afters at Gordon’s, it is impossible to deny that Moseley is a …

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Jason Roberts’s Every Living Thing has perhaps the most gorgeous cover I’ve ever seen on a natural history book. That alone would have been enough for me to pick it up and look more closely – but the subtitle, The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life, is darn near irresistible. The flap copy […]

We are told that energy transitions are always slow. But this is not supported by history. When a nation decisively commits to building energy infrastructure, it can build fast.We perceive that “energy can’t change quickly” because of recency bias. Most people in The West today have not experienced a major energy transition in their lifetimes. We think it's impossible to build new energy infrastructure quickly, because we haven’t recently.People are …

Ben Krause, Hamed Mousavi, Joni Teräväinen, and I have just uploaded to the arXiv the paper “Pointwise convergence of bilinear polynomial averages over the primes“. This paper builds upon a previous result of Krause, Mirek, and myself, in which we demonstrated the pointwise almost everywhere convergence of the ergodic averages as and almost all , whenever is a measure-preserving system (not necessarily of finite measure), and , for some with …

Tokyo Dawn Records has released a vinyl mastering simulator, which includes a prediction of the end result of the mastering process. If you have a plan to becoming a mastering engineer for vinyl, you can start practicing immediately.

Nonfiction Sick Societies, by Robert B. Edgerton, published 1992. An anthropological critique of cultural relativism, detailing how some folk societies develop maladaptive behaviors that harm themselves or others. Fascinating book with lots of interesting (and often sad and disturbing) anecdotes. From the Psmiths’ review, which is where I heard about the book in the first place: “That’s the case the late UCLA anthropologist Robert Edgerton set out to make in …

From a busy Waterloo Station, take a short train to Twickenham and you’re in a riverside village, transported back in time. Twickenham was absorbed into London when Middlesex County Council was abolished in 1965 and now makes up part of the London Borough of Richmond Upon Thames. With such a recent move into the metropolis its no wonder that a stroll around the historic riverside feels a world away from …

What could Lizzie Manley possibly see in George Burgess, alias George Crittenden?He was a bounder, a cad, a lowlife reprobate of the first water. She was a worldly-wise madam of a very prosperous brothel on Cincinnati’s notorious Longworth Street. Yet Lizzie fell hard for this scoundrel and carried her passion into the spirit realm.Lizzie and George were married on 2 May 1884. She was 45 years old and he might …

When a good friend of Eat Sleep Cycle from Denmark suggested we set up a trip in his homeland we started to research. We found an emerging gravel scene, an amazing variety of routes and a bike-friendly country where we cannot wait to take more Eat Sleep Cycle guests! Read on to find out why Denmark should be on every gravel-lovers bucket-list. La entrada Gravel Cycling in Denmark: A Hidden …