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Here’s all the writing about beer and pubs that grabbed our attention in the past week, from splitting the G to the GBG. First, some news: if the disappearance of various big beer festivals in the past year seemed significant, then the return of the Campaign for Real Ale’s Great British Beer Festival must also mean something. It’ll be back in 2025 but not at Olympia in London, where it’s …

If you think of the politics of rural America, you probably think of it in terms of conservativism. A mixture of rugged individualistic politics, cynicism about government and conservative political leanings. There's a lot of truth to this. In 2016, 62 percent of the US rural electorate voted for Trump. This reflected the way that Trump's political movement had become the outlet for general

Valerie Antwi, Emma McDonald and Christopher York in Foreverland, Southwark Playhouse Photo: Charlie Lyne If medical science made it possible to live forever, frozen at the age you have the procedure, would you do it? The ability to stay young and live way beyond what is normal is the premise...

“Time for Peace” (זמן לשלום), Lyrics: Amnon Abutbul, Yair Dalal, Fathi Kasem; Melody: Amnon Abutbul. Performing Shlomit Aharon and Yevgeni Shapovalov. This year I had the rare event that the new Jewish year coincides with my birthday, and “time for peace” expresses my wishes for both these occasions. Click here for the previous post on exciting mathematical irrationality news.

Merge Grant is a micro-grant initiative designed to give ambitious builders resources as they pursue compelling projects. It is run by Merge Club members—called Mergers—who review applications, conduct interviews, and make grant decisions. They take no equity, ownership, or future right to invest. You get perks and an invite to join the Merge Club. The awesome people at On Deck back the Merge Grant initiative. › Apply for a Grant …

Music From "Mo' Better Blues" is a collaborative album by Branford Marsalis Quartet and Terence Blanchard. It was released in 1990 through Columbia/CBS Records as a soundtrack to Spike Lee's 1990 film Mo' Better Blues. Recording sessions took place at RCA Studios and Sound On Sound in New York. Production was handled by Bill Lee, Delfeayo Marsalis, Raymond Jones and DJ Premier, with Spike Lee serving as executive producer. It …

My thanks to WorkOS for, once again, sponsoring the week at Daring Fireball. WorkOS is a modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. Start selling to enterprise customers with just a few lines of code. Ship complex features like SSO and SCIM (pronounced skim) provisioning in minutes instead of months. Today, some of the fastest growing startups are already powered by WorkOS, including Perplexity, Vercel, and Webflow. For SaaS apps that …

Genre: DeathCountry: U.S.A.Year: 20241. Stelae Of Vultures2. Chapter For Not Being Hung Upside Down On A Stake In The Underworld And Made To Eat Feces By The Four Apes3. To Strike With Secret Fang4. Naqada II Enter The Golden Age5. The Pentagrammathion Of Nephren-Ka6. Overlords Of The Black Earth7. Under The Curse Of The One God8. Doctrine Of Last Things9. True Gods Of The Desert 10. The Underworld Awaits Us …

I'm so happy to say that I'm the co-host of a podcast produced by Industrial Light & Magic. We call it "Lighter Darker."Our name comes from the 1997 artwork made by ILM art director Benton Jew of a cover of a fictional comic book called "Attack of the Nitpickers", where scary, undead people (clients) hover behind a digital artist (who is handcuffed to his desk) and the poor artist is …

New Model Army Thunder And ConsolationGet It At DiscogsNMA proved that they were well worth waiting for. Thunder and Consolation begins grandly, keeping the keyboards from "White Coats" on "I Love the World," an anthem filled with bittersweet irony and sarcasm. Self-produced, the album never falters, and the single "Stupid Questions" made an impression on American college and modern-rock radio, especially when working visas were granted to the band and …

This paper (Influence of a Large Language Model on Diagnostic Reasoning: A Randomized Clinical Vignette Study by Goh et al.) on ‘diagnostic reasoning’ hasn’t had enough attention. The authors fully expected Doctors plus GenAI to win. But GPT 4 on its own beat Doctors hands down.One of the authors made the point that the surprise was that the results broke that oft quoted trope that “AI will not take your …

The original: 4 Le labbra rosse paion de corallo, e havvi drento duo filar’ de denti che son più bianchi che que’ del cavallo: da ogni lato ve n’ha più de venti. Le gote bianche paion de cristallo, senz’altro liscio, né scorticamenti, rosse entro ’l mezzo, quant’è una rosa, che non se vide mai sì bella cosa. 8 Ell’è dirittamente ballerina, che la se lancia com’una capretta, girasi come ruota …

In this post we take a look at the format of the new Kill Team Core Book and the Hivestorm dossier from Kill Team: Hive Storm. We share our impressions of the new Kill Team edition from a casual player's perspective and analyse what has improved and what has not. The post Review: Kill Team: Hivestorm Pt. 2 – the rules appeared first on Tale of Painters.

Would you consider a donation to support Weekend Reads, and our daily work? The week at Retraction Watch featured: Web of Science puts mega-journals Cureus and Heliyon on hold Hidden hydras: uncovering the massive footprint of one paper mill’s operations New engineering dean has two retractions for authorship manipulation Pain researcher in Italy up to seven retractions Authors sue Sage over “discriminatory” retractions of papers cited in abortion pill case …

Welcome to our 6th annual fall reading poll! Please recommend a great book to add to our fall reading lists, and tell us what fragrance we should wear while reading it. Or, as always, just talk about something else, and of course, do report your fragrance of the day if you like. What I’ve read since the summer poll… Read the rest of this article »