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Hi, I know the “Name That Trauma” is usually about movies or TV, but there’s a book about ghosts I read as a kid that I’ve been trying to find for years and I thought someone might recognize what book I’m talking about. It was a book about “real" ghosts. It was blue and oversized and had a picture of a ghostly woman riding a carriage on the cover. She …

COROS has announced a smattering of new features for both their watches, as well as their Dura bike computer. In the case of the bike computer, this firmware update will mark the resumption of shipping, after the company halted shipping back shortly after launch, due to issues with the mounting tabs on the Dura breaking in K-Edge bike computer mounts (arguably the most popular 3rd party mount company out there). …

In this week’s issue of The Savvy Diabetic: Geofencing/Dexcom G7 Update! with Jake Leach Senseonics Gets FDA Clearance for 1-year CGM Abbott Ramps Up Libre 3 Production AI Model to Predict Diabetic Retinopathy GC Therapeutics “Supercell” Medicines SymbioCellTech’s Stem Cell-Enabled Therapy How to Appeal Insurance Denials Type 1 Diabetes & Brain Development FTC & PMBs Sue Each Other Using ChatGPT to Diagnose Geofencing/Dexcom G7 Update!

December 29th, 2002, was the most terrifying car ride of my life. I sat in the backseat, knuckles white as I grasped the car seat, silently praying that the unthinkable would not occur while knowing in my heart that it would. We would get into an accident and never make it home. And I had no way to protect the brand new human riding beside me. Looking back, I know …

It's small.It's light.It seems well built.It seems pretty sharp. It was much cheaper than the new Leica equivalent. I like it.The mannequins have left the building. Mic drop.

At its best, social media is like jazz — there’s an improvisational, multi-player quality to it. Following threads, riffing, and quipping creates a collaborative rhythm all its own. I love that! Then, add in the “threaded style” of social media writing and thinking. There’s a give-and-take, a call-and-response. Ideas build on each other, it’s even more like jazz. Sometimes, riffs are refined via “collaborating with the network” to the point …

by Zahid Fayyaz Based on the 1963 album by Charles Mingus, this production transferred from Shoreditch Town Hall after a run last year. The dance/theatre production set entirely on the Barbican stage – the audience join both the Clod Ensemble and the Nu Civilisation Orchestra on stage for the show. With the space done up as a jazz club, the audience sits and stands around the dancers and the musicians …

The DX-286 now comes with TWO 18650 Li-ion batteries and is available from Amazon for US buyers and Ali Express for those outside the US. See it at Amazon: See it at Ali Express: Jay Allen

Pnårp suffered expensive disasters, queued up some Q-Tips, then took that as his cue to tiptoe off.

Yet another gloriously sunny September weekend, I spent most of it stacking firewood in preparation for winter. The high point came early Saturday morning when I found myself in Ottawa's ByWard Market with an hour to kill. It was so early, that Patrick McGahern Books hadn't yet opened, and so I made for Parliament Hill to see how the restoration of the Centre Block is progressing.Quite well, it seems.Despite the …

Happy Sunday everyone! I’ve got a little bit of a different format for the newsletter today— In light of iOS 18’s release earlier this week, I’ve put together a list of some of my favorite indie iOS apps that are already taking advantage of the features the new OS provides for developers. That said, I couldn’t leave my fellow gear heads hanging with just apps in this issue, so I’m …

The year was 1908. The shock waves of the 1905 Revolution still reverberated throughout the Russian Empire when two letters from an Indian revolutionary Taraknath Das reached Leo Tolstoy at home in Iasnaia Poliana. Das wrote to the ailing Tolstoy, then a world-renowned author, pacifist and anarchist, asking for his...

The advance publicity described Manu Chao’s show at Brixton Academy last night as an acoustic set, but if that suggests some kind of gentle fireside recital, forget it. The energy was peaking from the moment the 63-year-old Franco-Spanish singer-guitarist appeared — with Lucky Salvadori from Argentina playing what I think was a Colombian tiple and Miguel Rumbao from Havana playing bongos and activating a little black box that triggered the …

Earlier this year, I was captivated by this brightly coloured wall outside Düsseldorf Kunstsammlung K20. The artist? Sarah Morris. How beautifully circuitous.

The sports drama follows the Chuska Warriors, a Native American high school basketball team from Chuska, New Mexico, that must band together after losing their star player if they want to keep their quest for a state championship alive.