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We always standby our recommendation of anything that Pop Filter puts together, and today you can stream Ray and Lorraine’s, the group’s new record. I’ve been fortunate enough to have a listen to the record ahead of time, and if I picked a must recommend track, I’d go with “Documentary Footage;” it captures the rawness of a group, while still

[The ethics of zoos are difficult, but disguising one animal as another is pretty clearly wrong.] One Foot Tsunami’s oeuvre is such that when a zoo is caught attempting to pass off a dog as a panda, as happened again last month, I hear about it from readers. But rather than link to many similar stories, let’s look at a recap of many instances of duplicitous zoos, courtesy of the …

Introducing: The dark navy Donegal Friday, October 4th 2024Tags: CoatsPermanent styleprivate white VC Share Share this post Subscribe 32 Comments ||- Begin Content -|| For our new iteration of the Donegal coat, I wanted to create a version that was the easiest possible colour, weight and pattern to wear. Readers ask so much about versatility - about having one good coat - so I knew making something that could be …

This is my first time participating in a IndieWeb Carnival. I had seen this name floating around before, but I have never participated. After reading both Manuel Moreale’s and Jan-Luka’s posts, I got interested, especially due to the topic: multilingualism in a global web. This month’s edition is hosted by ZinRicky. As you probably know, I was born and raised in Portugal. Therefore, I grew up speaking Portuguese and that’s …

lingthusiasm:Bonus 92: Xenolinguistics 👽 | LingthusiasmSomeday, we might make contact with intelligent life beyond our planet. In that case, linguists want to be PREPARED. Enter the excitingly named field of Xenolinguistics!In this bonus episode, Gretchen and Lauren get enthusiastic about how linguists might go about communicating with aliens. Drawing on highlights of the academic book “Xenolinguistics: Towards a Science of Extraterrestrial Language”, we talk about how we’d actually go about …

An unusual sight in North Carolina’s Hurricane Helene devastated areas are volunteer mule teams. With hundreds of miles of roads washed out and no guarantee of helicopter LZs in some places, folks like the Mountain Mule Packer Ranch are stepping up. Via Mountain Mule Packer Ranch Via Mountain Mule Packer Ranch The MMPR gang, based in Ulna, NC, are pros. They specialize in offering mule packing classes to military customers, …

Memo to self: do not be afraid to revisit ‘difficult’ books. Not only are they truly wonderful to read, you’ll also see so much more in them than the first time round! Yes, I’ve been re-reading Virginia Woolf, a long time favourite author, and the title I went back to was one which I really can’t be sure when I last read. It could, in fact, be decades, and it’s …

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Volcanoes that are rich in iron might be prime locations to find high concentrations of rare earth elements. Recent lab experiments have demonstrated that when iron-rich magmas experience volcanic pressures and temperatures, the resulting iron oxide-apatite (IOA) deposit separates into two unmixable melts, one of which is highly enriched in rare earth elements (REEs). “The rare earth element contents can be close to 200 times higher than in the silicate-rich …

The opening line of the new Retail Simps LP hits you straight away: “We’re a garage band, we’re from Garageland.” But make no mistake, this isn’t your typical garage band. Beyond the shifting names — from Tha Retail Simpson on their 2022 debut, to Theee Retail Simps on their 2023 follow-up, and now Thine Retail […] The post <h2>New album: Thine Retail Simps || Strike Gold, Strike Back, Strike Out</h2> …

Hello Lenore, I have had great interest in your philosophy and truly feel connected to your philosophy of allowing our children the opportunity to grow and as individuals through independence and exploration. I had the pleasure of listening to your piece on NPR a few months ago and was so relieved that there was someone else feeling exactly as I did about this issue! I grew up in Rhode Island …

Cloud (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2024).After four decades spent scaring moviegoers through all manner of supernatural subject matter, Kiyoshi Kurosawa has, with Cloud (2024), taken to exploring the psychological effects of a more everyday evil: capitalism. In this follow-up to his medium-length psychodrama Chime earlier this year (a film as cryptic and tantalizingly elusive as anything he’s recently endeavored), Kurosawa reconfigures a number of themes and ideas that have animated his long-running …

Automattic AlignmentAutomattic AlignmentOctober 3, 2024AutomatticWinston Churchill said, “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” Since I last blogged here, WP Engine filed a meritless lawsuit and Automattic responded, and there’s been a hurricane of public activity and press. Inside of Automattic, there’s been a parallel debate and process.Silver Lake and WP Engine’s attacks on me and Automattic, while spurious, have been effective. It became clear a good chunk of …

Vape Trail. (click to enlarge)Nikon Zf; 24-120mm lens @ 58mm; 1/125th sec. @ f/5.6; ISO 20,000 Recently I wrote about the Paradox of Choice. The crux of the paradox of choice is too many choices degrade the experience and cause unnecessary stress. You can read more about that at this post, here. For me, that paradox holds true for when I need to decide which of my three kits I …