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New article from Special Needs Jungle: Are we missing the point when looking at the so-called “attainment gap” in academic achievement of some disabled pupils? A recent article in the Guardian (19 September 2024), reported an … The post Should we ‘mind the gap’ of disabled pupils’ attainment? Or is it really an indictment of how success is measured? appeared first on Special Needs Jungle. Sharon Smith ⓒ Special Needs …

In the San Francisco Bay Area, the regional transportation planning body, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC), has launched a major effort to improve the coordination between the region’s 27 transit agencies. One element of this, just unveiled, is a regional standard for transit network maps. The goal is to have all of the region’s maps evolve toward the same style, so that it’s easier to explore the entire region’s network. …

Ramin Karimloo and Anoushka Lucas in A Face in the Crowd at the Young Vic Theatre, London. Picture: Ellie Kurttz A Face in the Crowd continues at the Young Vic Theatre, London until 9 November 2024. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Politics as entertainment. Celebrity trumping competence and decency. The fine line between American patriotism and bigotry. It’s not hard to see why playwright Sarah Ruhl, …

It’s always a pleasure to reconnect with writers Bloom has featured in the past—especially when they reach a career milestone. Returning bloomer Meg Pokrass spoke with us about First Law of Holes (Dzanc Books), a selection of stories from the past fourteen years of her career, which is out now. Meg Pokrass Leah De Forest: First, congratulations on First Law of Holes. Meg Pokrass: Thank you so much. LDF: How …

Whilst the launch day of the 2024 Coffee and Crime Classic Crime Advent Calendar is not as highly anticipated as the release of Taylor Swift concert tickets or of a new iPhone, it has been encouraging to receive quite a few emails in September asking me if the advent calendars were going to be sold again this year. So, yes, I can confirm that not only will they be happening, …

Oil paintings don’t look that great in books but photographs do. This is part —but only a part—of the reason why photobooks are ubiquitous in the photo art world. No other art form seems so naturally inclined to the printed page, no other art form is so augmented (it is hoped) by being placed in sequence, a turn of the page informing the previous image as it reveals the next. …

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Last week and this, I’m very pleased to feature this interview between my good friend Thaddeus Zupančič and the esteemed architect Kate Macintosh. Kate Macintosh (b. 1937) is the architect of Dawson’s Heights housing estate in south London (1966-72), the Grade II-listed sheltered housing Macintosh Court (1969-72), also in south London, and Weston Adventure Playground in Southampton (with her life partner George Finch, RIBA Award 2005). These are her best-known …

On Monday morning, the Office of Space Commerce formally started the first phase of its long-awaited space traffic coordination system, called TraCSS. Jeff Foust reports on the milestone and its implications.

Message to a friend on publishing ‘requests’/offers: Increasingly colleagues who publish an article in any good journal soon get an unsolicited email from some generic named (unheard from previously) “publisher” offering their great admiration and wanting their work as a book or chapter in their stunning new series of XXX. Buried inside the “offer” is a big fee. The approach sometimes starts out bragging about the coverage you’ll get publishing …

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Movies Hit Man (2023) Watched on 2024-08-08: ★★★½ Hit Man (2023) Fairly enjoyable. This was a bit more rom-com than I expected and much less violent than I expected and had way more sex scenes than I expected (glad I didn't watch it with my mom!) but also the story took a darker turn than I thought it would. Glen Powell gives some good performances as both a boring cat …

Photo-a-day for the month of September 2024. During this month I passed 1000 days in a row – read about it here245 246247 248249 250251252 253254 255256 257258 259260 261262 263264 265266 267268 269DAY 1000 271272 273274Start Select Reset 📑 Start Select Reset Zine (SSRZ) is a quarterly physical newsletter, sent via snail mail to paid subscribers Join the Mailing List From £5/month 💌 Subscribing supports my work and brings …

Here are our hand-selected favorites from eBay for this week, plus a heads-up on recommended sales. If you’re a member of the Inside Track, log in with your CrateJoy username and password. If you’re not a member, you can join now for just $5 a month. You’ll get access to one of these members-only lists every week, and your membership supports Put This On! The post Inside Track: September 29th …