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Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Claire from The Captive Reader and Sharlene from Real Life Reading that encourages bloggers to share the books they’ve checked out from the library. If you’d like to participate, just write up your post-feel free to steal the button-and link it using the Mr. Linky any time during the week. And of course check out what other participants are getting from their …

‘This systematic review examines empirical evidence supporting the anecdotal assumption, that dogs look like and behave like their owners. To this end, we investigated 15 studies with the aim of testing that: (1) Owners and their dogs resemble each other in appearance and (2) owners and their dogs have similar personalities. Aggregation of the results … Continue reading Like owner, like dog – A systematic review about similarities in dog-human …

After a magnificent summer the days are getting cooler, the leaves are turning and there is a definite autumnal feeling in the air. Perfect weather for long tours on our...

There’s a New York Times headline that says “You Won’t Stop Thinking About This Clam Chowder,” which sounds like a fucking curse.But I'm still thinking about reverb. Last night, it struck me that reverb is my Tannhäuser Gate, both there and not there, a threshold between the zones of shape and fog, definition and possibility. Sort of like my brain during the first hour of the day.Here’s the routine: Wake …

In this week’s blog, Dr Martin Spychal, Senior Research Fellow on the Commons 1832-1868 project, discusses his new book Mapping the State: English Boundaries and the 1832 Reform Act. The book is part of the Royal Historical Society’s New Historical Perspectives series and has been published by the University of London press. It is available now to download free in open access, or to purchase in paperback and hardback. In …

I'll be moving soon. I've been in the same apartment in Mentor, Ohio, just down the street from the James A. Garfield National Historic site (where our 20th president once lived) and a little further down the street from the public library where I work, for 12 years now, but the time has come to head back to my hometown of Ashtabula, Ohio to take care of my ancestral home.This, …

I like the stripes on this one: the contrast between the vertical stripes on the bodice and skirt, the horizontal stripe on the skirt, and diagonal of the bias-cut sleeves. The maker even made the effort to align the stripes on the cape and bodice at the center front.Dress, cotton, c.1825. From LACMA.

The release of the Lost Art Press “Make a Swedish Tool Chest with Whitney Miller” video course coincided with an expansion of my free time. And so, it was an easy decision to take this on as a new project. (And before you ask “what about the boat??”, yes, I am still working on the boat. I’m still doing final finishing on the mast, which is rather tedious. And the …

Double Maths First Thing is Colin’s weekly news bulletin. Although it’s more like a nerfpelletin, honestly. Hello! My name is Colin and I am a mathematician on a mission to help everyone find the joy and delight in figuring things out. Art! Up in that London they have these days, the Piccadilly Circus ad boards are being taken over by Olafur Eliasson. While this doesn’t look especially mathematical, a lot …

It is quite unbelievable that Amsterdam still does not have a bridge over the River IJ, despite discussions on this topic dating back almost two centuries. There are no other cities in the Netherlands that sit along a river and …

There are two fantastic things about this witch's broom. 1. It's easy and free to make. 2. If you don't have a lot of storage space for things like Halloween decorations you can just compost it or burn it at the end of the season then make a new one next year. Hi. I'm Karen. I long...Read More

And so to the rest of the layouts at Spa Valley. Elbow Lane is a familiar, but always interesting little railway. St Mellion is also familiar, but is a neat bit of modelling. A little modern image with New Oak Lane. It’s rare to see gauge 1 at a show, so High Halden was especially welcome. Lots of buses on Cannon Bay. Newfangled TT120 with Teaton. And old school TT …

In which I accidentally ran 16.2 miles instead of 13.1. Whoops. Assumed audience: People interested in endurance running (or endurance sports more generally), or who just like to hear what I am up to as a runner. On Sunday, I ran the Boulderthon Half Marathon! And… an extra 5km, such that I don’t have a particularly good official time to brag about, because my official finish time was 1:39:30. But …

U2's The Unforgettable Fire turns 40 today. Good heavens. You never forget your first U2 album, and this was mine. The title track my introduction to the band.

Nero, book, Italian, 96 pages, 2021, Italia By 1984, Frigidaire magazine was an established publication that combined an edgy, irreverent and outspoken attitude with wide newsstand circulation. Among the various experiments in the pages of the magazine, the very first computer-generated comic was published that year. It was realised by a classic duo of illustrator and scriptwriter (Antonio Glessi and Andrea Zingoni) working with an Apple II+ and a primordial …