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“Dark Wave,” hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs' Matt Sebastian, explores the darker side of classic '80s alternative, including vintage goth, post-punk and industrial.

The following guest post from humanities scholar Katie Livingston is part of our Vanishing Culture series, highlighting the power and importance of preservation in our digital age. My Grann’s edition of The Grady County Extension Homemaker Council’s cookbook Down Home Cookin’ is missing its front and back cover. Once made of thin, flimsy pieces of plastic decorated with an old barn and windmill, the cover has long since fallen off …

Given a hash value, can you determine what algorithm produced it? Or what algorithm probably produced it? Obviously if a hash value is 128 bits long, then a 128-bit algorithm produced it. Such a hash value might have been produced by MD5, but not by SHA-1, because the former produces 128-bit hashes and the latter a 160-bit hash. The more interesting question is this: given an n-bit hash, can you …

Red Squirrel Awareness Week runs from30th September to 6th October 2024 Managing grey squirrel populations is important to ensure the recovery of our native reds. Find out from APHA’s Sarah Beatham how her team are developing a contraceptive to reduce grey squirrel numbers. --------- For Red Squirrel Awareness week (30 September to 6 October) the UK Squirrel Accord will be hosting webinars on red squirrel ecology and conservation, supporting one …

STS: Rudy Resplendent, Preacher Powell Gone Over the Line, and Sacrosanct StrandRUDY AND HIS BLACK AND WHITE DREAM COAT --- What becomes of clothes when we pass? I’d like mine to tour on mannequins as Rudy’s should have, perhaps did for all I know. Surely this stunning overcoat with fur collar and cuffs went somewhere other than Goodwill. Might a derelict on soup lines have ended up with it? Valentino …

Luigi Lucioni, Iris & Carnations, 1928. He was the first and youngest contemporary American Painter to have a work purchased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Cities across Southeast Asia use Singapore as a measuring stick for development progress. “The next Singapore” is a phrase that is often used in this context. These cities try to emulate Singapore by building luxury apartments and landmark towers to attract high net-wealth individuals and family offices. Instead of looking up at skyscrapers, cities should look down at the street level first. Singapore’s success starts at ground level with its …

Trench warfare (Warning: the story of Ishmal Bernal's films Relasyon (The Affair, 1982) and Broken Marriage (1983) are discussed in close detail) Film available online (can't link to it directly though-- go look for yourself!), which is one reason why I'm reposting this. No English subtitles, alas. You might say Ishmael Bernal's Broken Marriage (1983), his follow-up to the successful melodrama Relasyon (The Affair, 1982), isn't quite as commercially or …

Many of us choir leaders are constantly on the look-out for new warm up ideas. Whenever I look on the internet, I always come across sheet music for vocalises. But these are only a small part of what a warm up should be. Vocalises are songs without words, chosen for their value as exercises in vocal technique. They date back to the mid-18th Century. But a vocal warm up is …

Favourite stage direction: “A memory. Which disintegrates more each time we visit it. Elements getting stripped away, including the words. Club. High off their faces. An indie classic plays.” (Waleed Akhtar’s The Real Ones) The post The Real Ones appeared first on Aleks Sierz.

Reports of the death of the traditional drinking pub have been greatly exaggerated, judging by the levels of trading across the category that shows a relatively healthy trend, as drinkers are increasingly choosing the pub rather than late-night venues including nightclubs and bars. Wet-led pubs have enjoyed a 10% increase in like-for-like sales on a…

Shark Ninja's first jump into the premium espresso market brings the usual Ninja flair of a lot of added features. How did they do? We have a lot to say early on. The post Ninja Luxe Cafe Espresso Machine appeared first on CoffeeGeek.

Ashley Redd, a teacher in a New Orleans elementary school, described her experience of going through a school day shadowing a 4th grader. This article appeared in Education Week, January 22, 2020. Shortly afterwards, Redd became a director of a micro-school in New Orleans schools. If you think you’re tired after a day of teaching, you should try being a 4th grader. I recently spent a day shadowing a 4th …

On Saturday we went to the British Art Fair, which was huge, filled with wonders and horrors, and extremely crowded. At first I thought we wouldn’t be able to move or see anything, but the crowds thinned as we progressed. About 70 galleries were exhibiting, most of them multiple works, so you could emerge from the scrum overwhelmed and remembering nothing. But I did see things that excited me, and …

Two upcoming events that may be of interest to you (please pass on to others who may like them): The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at San Francisco State Presents: A non-technical, 6-week class with Professor Andrew Fraknoi Einstein without Tears Tuesdays from 12:30 to 2:30 pm via Zoom (Oct. 8 – Nov. 12, 2024) This non-technical, non-mathematical introduction to some of the most awe-inspiring ideas from the work of Albert …