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In between my day job as an M&A attorney and my social responsibilities (which are legion), I have been slowly organizing the new workshop. Recently, this has included updating the tool wall that goes with my hanging wall cabinet. The tool wall itself hangs from the same french cleats the main wall cabinet hangs off, […]

When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labutat (NYRB, 2020) A book that is both fiction and non-fiction, both wave and particle, both history and imagination, and somehow, something else entirely. Great mathematicians and physicists walk the pages—Haber, Heisenberg, Bohr, Grothendieck, Schrödinger, and more. Their lives are marked by great achievements, fame and shame, agony and lucidity, and a great many deaths—their own, of course, but also countless …

There is a long running debate in F1 about the impact that drivers and cars have on winning. If drivers have their way, the wins are because of them and the losses are the car’s fault. But over the years, lots and lots of people have studied this issue, and it seems like winning is about 80% car and 20% everything else (driver, team, pit crew, team principal). There is …

Konami’s Contra series showed obvious influence from R-rated movies like Predator, Aliens, and Rambo, but the games were still fundamentally aimed at kids, so the end results were always a little sanitized. Now thirty-five years after the original Contra game, unshackled by such regulations, Iron Meat delivers run-and-gun action far more brutal and far more vicious than the original games were ever allowed to be. Rather than dealing with alien …

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The recent UN Summit of the Future marked a pivotal moment in history, specifically recognizing the critical role of youth in shaping our global future. As an educator and advocate for futures literacy, I'm delighted to share the key takeaways from our involvement and participation. Youth Voices at the Forefront The Summit's core message was clear: youth participation is not just welcomed—it's essential. The Pact for the Future explicitly calls …

Review of the book Works Fall True. Selected works by Ryts Monet. Edited by Francesco D’Abbraccio, Andrea Facchetti, Andrea Catherine Steves. Published by Krisis Publishing. Texts in both English and Italian. The publisher explains that the book is “embarking on a Warburgian investigation into the shifts of narrative devices following the downfall and disintegration of the empires and ideologies that shaped them.” I’ll never get back the time i spent …

Nick Wolven’s latest contribution to Asimov’s explores colonialism, false repentance, and the line between suspicion and paranoia; available to read in our [September/October issue, on sale now!] Asimov’s Editor: What is the story behind this piece?Nick Wolven: I got the idea for this one back in 2020 or so when white privilege was a hot topic. So I was thinking about the horrors of European colonialism and the ways in …

In this week’s issue of The Savvy Diabetic: Stem cells Reverse T1D Microtech Linx CGM (a fail?) FDA Releases Clinical Hold on Biomea Fusion’s BMF-219 StartUp Health Podcast: WiNK Therapeutics & Sensulin Heat/dust Increase Diabetes Hospitalizations Gina Pillina, T1D and Illustrator Extraordinaire! Stem cells reverse woman’s diabetes — a world first by Smriti Mallapaty for Nature.com, 26 September 2024. A 25-year-old woman with type 1 diabetes started producing her own …

Four pages from the lovely handmade and hand drawn book of Lillian M. Trafton. I was able to find one girl with that name born 1892 in Massachusetts. There are eight pages of illustrations including the cover with original ribbon tie, but I scanned my favorites. Booklet made by Lillian M. Grafton c. 1900 Collection Jim Linderman / Dull Tool Dim Bulb

Just remembering that record scratch moment when I realised that PDA no longer stood for personal digital assistant. Oh, so those celebrities aren’t actually into the latest Palm or Clie or Treo. Makes sense.

The kid started pre-k this month. Amazingly it took 2.5 weeks before he brought home the first cold. Then it was another week before I came down with it. I also finally started on my Halloween projects for the year. This year it’s an upcycled pallet wood coffin, and a PVC giant spider. So far I’ve got the coffin lid and bottom made, and now need to make the walls. …

From the International Mathematical Union newsletter: Paper mills and predatory journals have strongly professionalised their activities in the past 10 years and are now creating a substantial revenue. There is a growing parallel universe of fake mathematical science that undermines the trust in science and devaluates the classical selection criteria for scientific excellence based on the (over-)use of bibliometrics). The concrete starting point was that in November 2023, Clarivate (the …

Here are the collected posts for our Balkinization symposium on Aileen Kavanagh's new book, The Collaborative Constitution (Cambridge University Press, 2023). 1. Jack Balkin, Introduction to the Symposium2. Stephen Gardbaum, Collaborative and Abusive Constitutionalism3. Mark Tushnet, Constitutional Collaboration and Constitutional Showdowns4. Lawrence B. Solum, The Preconditions for Collaborative Constitutionalism5. Erin F. Delaney, Collaboration “Devolved”6. Aileen Kavanagh, Imagining America’s Collaborative Constitution: Part IAileen Kavanagh, Imagining America’s Collaborative Constitution: Part II

American Gothic (1995) s01e19 “Strangler” [1998] D: Doug Lefler. S: Gary Cole, Lucas Black, Paige Turco, Brenda Bakke, Sarah Paulson, Nick Searcy, John Mese. Cole and Paulson go full magical in the opening, resulting in Cole hiring the ghost of the Boston Strangler (Gareth Williams) to take Paulson out. Ghosts can kill ghosts. Williams tries to bring her out by befriending Black. Williams is pretty dang evil, and it’s a …