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In 2020 I summarised the then published research on puberty blockers in a blog. That blog post remains a comprehensive overview of the pre 2020 literature, with relevance to discussions today. There has been a significant body of research on puberty blockers published since that 2020 blog, that I will summarise and keep updated here. I’ve been meaning to update that blog, 4 years later. I was given encouragement by …

Social share images unfurl beneath link shares on many popular social platforms, such as Discord, Slack, LinkedIn, and more. Did you ever notice those social media share images that automatically pop up for a site and think to yourself, "wow, it would be really cool if I could get that set up for my blog"? In this post, I will show you how I use 11ty shortcodes and Cloudinary to …

Klauss, grupo argentino fundado en 1988 por el músico y experimentador sonoro Ernesto Romeo (sintes, secuenciadores, samplers, mellotron, teclados, batería electrónica, ordenadores y procesadores) y Alejandro Vázquez (sintetizadores, percusión, guitarra eléctrica y sintetizada, ordenadores y procesadores). Posteriormente pasaron por el grupo Walter Alderete y Ángel Castro (sintes) para finalmente quedar definitivamente como trio con Ernesto Romeo, su hermano Lucas Romeo (guitarras, sintes, teclados y procesadores) y Francisco Nicosia (sintes, samplers, …

We’re back with an update on all things D&D Adventurer! Take a look at our Dungeons & Dragons Adventurer Issues The post Dungeons & Dragons Adventurer Issues 54-65 Contents Confirmed appeared first on FauxHammer.

Posted on October 24, 2024 Tags: madeof:atoms, madeof:bits, craft:zine I have no idea either. Happy Maladay1 to those who celebrate it, I guess. If you care about the how, it started as china ink on tracing paper, with the help of a template (and a correction sheet for one page where I used the wrong line on the template). A rubber stamp was carved with the author’s signature and stamped …

Pic: Isabel Gonzalez Belobradic By Lucy Snell and Isabel Gonzalez Belobradic Thousands of pro-Palestine protesters, including groups from the ELL boroughs, met at Trafalgar Square on Saturday to call for an immediate ceasefire and for the UK government to cut ties with Israel, as the conflict continues. Among the participants were activists from the boroughs Lewisham, Hackney, Tower Hamlets, and Croydon, who expressed their anger at the British government’s ongoing …

Unité d’Habitation in Marseille, Le Corbusier Archiobjects The Unité d’Habitation in Marseille, designed by Le Corbusier, stands as one of the most iconic works of modern architecture. Completed in 1952, this structure is a paradigmatic example of the urban and residential vision of the renowned Franco-Swiss architect. The concept of the Unité d’Habitation stems from Le Corbusier’s idea of creating a vertical […] The post Unité d’Habitation in Marseille, Le …

Performance reviews are useful for two things: Thing #1: Succession planning. There’s a decent chance you’ll get a new manager before the next performance review. That new manager needs to know how you’re doing, where you’re excelling, where you’re struggling, what you’ve accomplished, what your goals are, etc. Reading past performance reviews helps with that onboarding. Thing #2: Compensation. If your company ties performance ratings to raises and bonuses then …

‘Listen to your body: all you have to do is wear it’This is the promise of the FitBit Inspire 3, launched in 2022. This is a product, the ad tells us, that ‘makes fitness so fun, you’ll move more, love it and see how it all adds up’. Oh, and don’t forget: ‘track it or it didn’t happen’.The global fitness tracker industry was worth around $54 billion in 2023 and …

Can a map be a mile long? Kevin Kelly (founding editor of Wired Magazine) and David Rumsey created one with The Speed of The Earth art installation, a roughly one mile long line of 30 strobe lights mapping the rotational speed of the earth on its axis - 1156 feet per second or 788 miles per hour. Installed at Burning Man on the Black Rock Desert in Nevada in September …

The Five Flys, from left: Rich Murlo, Tony Tonon, Steve Kucey, Skip Nehrig and John Gallagher. Photo courtesy of Tony Tonon The Five Flys released their only single “Livin’ for Love” / “Dance Her By Me” in 1966. It was the last single on Samron Records S-104, and the only one with Coaldale, PA on the label. Members included Rich Murlo, Tony Tonon, Steve Kucey, Skip Nehrig and John Gallagher. …

Some months ago, I wrote a guide on building a warm-weather wardrobe on a budget. This was a tricky thing to do; different people have different conceptions of warmth, and dressing well often involves layering, a concept that upets many people who are just starting to get used to the idea of getting dressed in warm weather. Luckily, as the weather starts to get chilly, people will be more and …

This is a version of the opening statement I contributed to the panel “Evolving Perspectives on AI and Design” at the Design & AI symposium that was part of Dutch Design Week 2024. I had the pleasure of joining Iohanna Nicenboim and Jesse Benjamin on stage to explore what could be called the post-GenAI possibility space for design. Thanks also to Mathias Funk for moderating. The slide I displayed: My …

If you’re not practicing something with regularity, like a few times a week, your ability will start to ebb rather than flow. Too much ebbing means any flow will start to dry up, parched of life, before it disappears for good. It takes will and effort to build a strong habit, but the more you practice the easier it becomes. I’ve noticed this to some extent with writing. I find …

If April is the cruelest month because it encourages the growth of flowers but can suddenly cut them down with resurrected cold, autumn is its counterpart. The last warmth of summer lingers into autumn, and the trees reflect the turning of the season with their colorful, dying leaves. Thoreau says of autumn that the leaves teach us how to die. And the variations of color in this final process seem …