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A box full of treasures in the form of a delivery from Shipton Bulbs. Note that some of the bulbs come in brown paper bags and some in plastic bags with a little compost to keep them moist. The bulb trade operates for the most part on the sale of dry bulbs which can be taken from the ground, stored, distributed and sat awhile in shops awaiting sale. Some species …

Ep #90Scroll-Driven Animation Una, rad special guest Bramus, and I break down scroll-driven animation! For more learning and information, checkout Bramus' YouTube Series and his awesome tool scroll-driven-animations.style. Watch · Listen

I wrote sometime ago about the relatively recent phenomenon of queuing at the bar. You know the kind of thing, standing in a line rather than joining a general scrum in front of the bar. Proper pub behaviour, in other words.On return from our week in Spain, we decided to stay a couple of days in London. We'd flown from the fab London City Airport, which was way cheaper for …

"Cocker had been watching a lot of porn movies in various deluxe hotel suites around the world, finding himself with a lot of dead time on his hands (and all over his body) during the longeurs of long tours. Beyond their prurient use value, Jarvis typically homed in on the pathos: the emptied-out eyes of the veteran porno performer going through the chafing motions, that same dead look you see …

Great news, everyone! I have finished the editing and revisions phase for my upcoming book, This Hole Was Made For (You And) Me. I started the formatting phase (one of my favorite parts of publishing) yesterday, and hope to be finished by the weekend. I still need to name a few chapters, write an afterword, and tie up a few other loose ends.When I first started revising, I worried I …

Braiding Pune’luxutth’ ways of knowing with western science to advance blue climate solutions The post Three generational conversation on the importance of q’am’ (kelp) forests appeared first on Canadian Climate Institute.

I’d like to feel that every reader of this blog gets value for money, so today I’m going to give you a real bonus and hand back the fifteen or so hours it would take to read Nexus, the latest 500 page outpuring from Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens and the sort of person who can describe himself as ‘one of the world’s most influential public intellectuals today’ without …

I mentioned a while ago that I wanted a way to filter Podcasts into multiple separate feeds based on their content. The tool I mention in the previous post, SiftRSS is pretty good, but the only thing it doesn’t currently do is let you change the name of the feed, which means I end up with several feeds with identical names. So, I made my own: Baleen. It’s pretty simple, …

By Dr John Ringquist By Dr John Ringquist The Iranian HESA Saheed 136 suicide drone (unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)) entered the war between Ukraine and Russia with undeniable effects. The influence of the same Iranian drones on Red Sea shipping in 2024 is equally undeniable, as Houthi militias utilised drones to threaten world shipping the … Continue reading #Commentary – Iran’s Drone Sales Threaten Sahel and Red Sea Stability →

V2X technology allowing vehicles to communicate with each other is Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s “moonshot” toward Vision Zero. (Bloomberg) Cities are using new technology to change the way they use curbs; for example, installing sensors to restrict loading zones to emissions-free vehicles. (Government Technology) Technology can also help make streets safer by helping to identify dangerous corridors and enforce traffic laws. (American City and County) New Rochelle, New York — …

Also OpenAI’s restructuring and Eric Adams.

Reading Time: 2 minutes How does working memory influence classroom learning and behaviour? Working memory is essential for learning, but it involves complex brain interactions that influence capacity, storage, and control, which has direct classroom implications for teachers. In this new research (Tardiff & Curtis, 2024) on Short-Term and Working Memory, the authors delve into the limits of memory […]

Google search does away with its cache, an archived copy of an earlier version of a webpage, but now links to the Internet Archive’s (IA) Wayback Machine copy instead. Try it on your own website, assuming it’s indexed by Google that is. On the search result, click the “more about this page” button, which will take you to a page where you’ll see a Wayback Machine link. You won’t see …

Imagine you can choose between a million projects, each of which you rank by two criteria: practicality and inspiration. You want a project that is both practical and inspirational. How much of one must you sacrifice for the other?Turns out this question is easy to answer if we make one key simplifying assumption: that these two ranking are independent of one another. In that case you can take the thousand …

Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. ***Readers of a certain age will know that, before there was the internet, there was Ceefax, that magical service on the BBC where, with a press of a remote control, you could access the latest written information about the worlds of news, sport, weather, politics and arts. All done with hi-tech blocky …