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The title of this post might seem like a truism, but for about a decade some people have claimed the opposite, and many people have spent much time and effort trying to understand why. Much of that effort was wasted. A decade ago, Nature Geoscience published Cohen et al (2014), a review paper on potential connections between the Arctic warming and extreme events (which has been cited an impressive 1449 …

Photographed with a Fujifilm X100VI – 23 mm focal length – 1/220″ at f/8 – ISO 125 Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, United States – Newe Sogobia (Eastern Shoshone), Cayuse, Umatilla and Walla Walla, Shoshone-Bannock, and Tséstho’e (Cheyenne) land This photograph, titled “Mormon Row, Grand Teton National Park. October, 2024.”, was originally published on All-Encompassing Trip.

I have just put up the final dates until next summer for these two walks if you would like to explore these areas with me, using my father’s photos from the late 1940s: The South Bank – Marsh, Industry, Culture and the Festival of Britain on Sunday 20th of October. Click here to book. The Lost Streets of the Barbican on Saturday the 2nd of November. Click here to book. …

Toxic masculinity and corporate culture are the main drivers of Tim Edge’s play One Of The Boys, a four-hander set in an unspecified company where sales and profits are seen as far more valuable than values or employees. In just 85 minutes, there’s a lot to reveal. The first ‘twist’, involving Heidi ((Jess Gough), was... The post Theatre review: One Of The Boys appeared first on LouReviews.

By Mx Kris Vyas-Myall The Times is running a series of articles where major thinkers elucidate on what they believe life will be like in 1980. The series started with Arthur Koestler (philosopher most known for his Orwellian novel, Darkness at Noon) who predicts that, in the Britain of 1980, Mediocracy will be the order … Continue reading [October 6, 1969] The Rule of a Mediocracy (Vision of Tomorrow #3) …

I’ve been seeing a lot of pieces by an artist named Matsu lately and I wanted to share them here. I’m really enjoying this style of slaps, throwies, and collage art and the use of a cute little mushroom as a character. So many mushrooms! The post Street art by Matsu appeared first on Doc Pop's Blog.

Everywhere in chainsWhere William Henry Smith (stationer) and Jesse Boot (chemist) began, the other chain retailers followed. In the late-19th and 20th centuries, countless high street shops belonged to chain store companies, who aimed to have a branch in every town and to corner the market in their specialist area, ensuring that a shopper in Brighton could travel to Bradford and find some* if not all of the same familiar …

I just hope it's the right one. This final session began in Keldar, where I took a ship to Hazlett and from there to Portsmith, stole a skiff, and rowed around the continent to Sonora. I used my pass to enter the Oasis Club, which turned out to be basically a regular tavern. As I entered, a patron named Sally warned me to show respect to an old man named …

This Christmas, Entertainers, one of the UK’s leading entertainment producers debut their first Christmas show; Step Into Christmas. The show embarks on a 35-date tour and arrives at the Pavilion Theatre, Glasgow on the 11th November. Step Into Christmas is a festive, feel-good show that brings all the magic of the season to life, with all your favourite Christmas songs including All I Want for Christmas Is You, Last Christmas, …

A year or so ago I was playing through Disco Elysium again, trying to see what I could break through hacks. I upped all of my version of Harrier DuBois’s skill points to well over maximum, gave him a nice little stipend with which to pay for his room at the Whirling-in-Rags, and set him loose in the dilapidated ruins of Revachol—the superest of Super Cops. What I found was …

I've had a really bad cold that thankfully on the way out as I'm in Spain next week for some chill 😎 time, a couple or three lemsip hot toddies sorted me out throughout the day. So from a sore throat, to a cough, to a streaming nose, a painful cough and losing my voice for 24 hours, a proper one this one, the end is in sight. As I'm …

David García Goñi released a new version of Elektroid, a sample and MIDI device manager for devices by Elektron, Arturia, Eventide, Moog, and Novation. The project started out as a FOSS alternative to Electron Transfer, then the developer merged code from from his other projects, MicroDude (Arturia MicroBrute librarian) and phatty (Moog Little Phatty librarian). Arturia MicroFreak support This paraphonic synth by Arturia is 5 years old, but it still …

Photo courtesy Boston Globe We’re doing Mahler’s 8th Symphony this weekend. It’s the first time for me since 2015 and only the second since I joined the Tanglewood Festival Chorus 19 years ago. (I wrote about that experience performing with James Levine, the late great Johan Botha, Deborah Voigt, and Heidi Grant Murphy (the soprano in the rafters) among others, at the time). The work remains galactic in its scope …

Carl Becker told his fellow historians in 1931 that we are not dissimilar from “bards and story-tellers and minstrels, of soothsayers and priests, to whom in successive ages has been Read more The post Kollin Fields on Daniel Wickberg’s *Thinking the Modern: A History of American Thought, 1860-2000* first appeared on Society for US Intellectual History.

Big Fish (2003) Tim Burton, you bastard, you’ve done it again. Hit a remarkable 0.7 Titanics on the cry-o-meter and made me want to call my papa. (8/10) Alien: Romulus (2024) I reviewed this one in full back in August, so go check that out if you want more detail. A stylish sequel (sevenquel?) that makes the world of Alien more believable than ever and introduces some great new talent. …