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The Silent Generation (born 1928-1945) is disproportionately represented among the most-cited authors in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Let's look at the numbers and think about why. Background: This post is based on my analyses of citation rates in the Stanford Encyclopedia in 2010, 2014, 2019, and 2024. As a measure of prominence in (as I call it) "mainstream Anglophone philosophy", no measure has better face validity than SEP citation …

Studded with hit songs and telling a truly inspiring story, hit bio-musical Tina, The Tina Turner Musical finally plays Melbourne, arriving in peak form. Wondrously warm and vocally superb, the powerhouse lead performance by Ruva Ngwenya is a key attraction of Tina. On stage almost the whole time and singing basically every song, Ngwenya captures audience affection the instant she appears, holding the audience firmly in her palm for the …

“How can you eat that so early in the morning?” asked my friend. She gestured with a fork at the plate in front of me, which contained a softball-sized muffin... Source

Ireland’s Lake District The view from Aghadoe Heights over Killarney. Quote of the Day “Any fool can know. The point is to understand.” Albert Einstein. Musical alternative to the morning’s radio news ‘Fairytale of New York’ played at Shane MacGowan’s funeral Link Shane McGowan’s funeral in Dublin was never going to be a staid affair, and so it proved. Long Read of the Day The American historian Heather Cox Richardson …

We do a lot of book clubs at work. Some of the books have been good, some have been bad, and some have been terrible. Most recently I was in a group that read Patty McCord’s Powerful, a book about the Netflix culture. While I don’t want to write a review of the book, I did want to share some of the highlights I made while reading. I made a …

It’s spooky season again, and if you know me, you’ll know I’m no fan of scary movies! But TCM has lots of other good stuff airing this month and I’m recommending two of my pre-Code and film noir features that I’ve previously covered here at Shadows and Satin. My Satiny pick is What Price Hollywood? (1932), starring Constance Bennett and Lowell Sherman, and directed by George Cukor. Bennett plays Mary …

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There’s just one month to go until the opening of our new exhibition Medieval Women: In Their Own Words. We can’t wait for visitors to come and explore the rich and complex lives of women in the Middle Ages! If you can’t wait either, then you might be excited to...

As part of restructuring my shop for the current economy, I added all of the individual In Detail publications to the Digital Whimsy section. This is an excellent way to learn about original pieces of fancy work. Each volume (except the blue ribbon case) contains directions for making your own. The compilation edition: Fanciful Utility […]

The one thing I am urgently trying to write is a text on the need for time (I don’t have time to write it, so there’s the problem). Nevertheless, I keep getting things that need to be read or recorded or transcribed… Here for economy, is a recent conversation written up as a note: There are topics that sociologists should regularly discuss – the problems with the university because that …

The Age reported that the State Government is planning to reduce the three stations in Brunswick (Jewell, Brunswick and Anstey) to two during the project to remove 8 level crossings. Looking at the current distances between the stations (source: Vicsig) we can see they’re pretty close. Stationkm from Southern Crosskm from previous stopRoyal Park5.432Jewell6.4631.031Brunswick7.2730.81Anstey7.9810.708Moreland8.7840.803 Platforms are about 160 metres long, meaning the distance from the end of one to the …

Trump 'resorted to crimes' to overturn 2020 result It alleges that he always planned to declare victory no matter the result, and laid the groundwork for this long before election day. It also accuses him of knowingly spreading false claims about the vote that he himself deemed "crazy". Since the Supreme Court presidential immunity ruling threw a wrench into the case, we’re suddenly getting a clearer view of what Trump …

magCulture Live London is back! Join us on Thursday 7 November for our annual celebration of magazine culture. The day will focus on the creative power of the double-page spread, and feature a series of talks from designers and editors including:Richard TurleyInterview, Rolling Stone, Offal et alShira InbarMSCHF & A24 zines Lucy RoeberThe Erotic Review Davide CazzaroNotebookNina CarterIt’s Freezing in LA!Chris O’LearyFatboy ZineWith more to be confirmed… read on for …

Not a new theory, but the golden age of streaming really was a ZIRP thing. I mean, Patriot anyone? RIP Cool Rick.

A puzzle kata, and a possible solution. When I was a boy I had a nine-piece puzzle that I'd been gifted by the Swizz branch of my family. It's called Das verflixte Hunde-Spiel, which means something like the confounded dog game in English. And while a puzzle with nine pieces doesn't sound like much, it is, in fact, incredibly difficult. It's just a specific incarnation of a kind of game …