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The film is adapted from Irish writer Maggie O'Farrell's 2020 New York Times bestselling novel of the same name, which won a National Book Critics Circle Award and the Women’s Prize for Fiction. "Hamnet" has sold 2 million copies in the U.K. and U.S. and has been translated in to 40 languages.

I’ve finally gotten around to getting accounts set up across a range of social media networks beyond Mastodon. Here’s the complete set of links: Follow me: on Bluesky on Mastodon on Threads Follow the blog: on Bluesky on Mastodon on Threads I’m trying not to cross-post much outside of work announcements on my personal accounts, but I honestly don’t know these things all fit together, and I’m not sure all …

[books] ‘We live in a climate of fear’: graphic novelist’s Elon Musk book can’t find UK or US publisher … Darryl Cunningham struggles to find a publisher for his latest book about Elon Musk. ‘He charts the rise of Musk to the “billionaire class” through his various business dealings including acquiring Tesla, SpaceX and Twitter, which he renamed X. Cunningham said: “Knowing what I know about the man, my conclusion …

Between the Temples (Nathan Silver, 2024).On a cold day in Rhinebeck, New York, Ben Gottlieb, the cantor of the local synagogue, walks into a Catholic church. Anxious, and recently widowed, Ben has come to talk about the afterlife. “Yeah, we don’t have Heaven or Hell,” he explains to the priest, pausing sheepishly, “we just have, you know, Upstate New York.” Ben is wondering whether, if he starts believing in heaven, …

To be a botanist today is to choose your words carefully. In her new book, The Light Eaters, Zoe Schlanger details the caution with which botanists ascribe intelligence to plants. Some only dare say plants can “sense”—they are like machines receiving stimuli and outputting an appropriate response. Other botanists take a small risk in the eyes of their peers to ascribe plants with “behavior.” There are fewer still who are …

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Review by Frances S: Violet Trefusis, (1894-1972), was the daughter of Alice Keppel, wife of George Keppel, a son of the 7th Earl of Albemarle. When Violet was four years old, her mother became the favourite mistress of the then Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII). Violet grew up as a cosmopolitan socialite and became a writer, part of the notoriously avant-garde ‘Bloomsbury Set’. She was fluent in French …

Here are the best and most interesting articles, blog posts, videos, podcasts, and GitHub repositories I’ve run into over the last week (November 18, 2024 - November 25, 2024). Enjoy! Microsoft / Dotnet / Azure - Other Software Dev - Tech and Science - Leadership - Project Management / Agile - Social Media - Non-Tech / Random - Videos - GitHub Repos Here are some posts I’ve written in the …

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All Insights | Strategy How To Build A Robust Retirement Portfolio: A Data-Driven Approach Larry Swedroe Last Updated: November 25, 2024 Share: Larry Swedroe Last Updated: November 25, 2024 Share: Introduction to Monte Carlo simulations for Retirement Planning Retirement is a time when financial planning becomes critical—there’s less room for error once you’re no longer earning a paycheck.While mistakes during your working years can often be addressed with higher savings, …

A Conversation by Todd Craig and LeBrandon Smith Happy Hip Hop History Month! Last week writer, educator and DJ Todd Craig and cultural curator and social impact leader LeBrandon Smith kicked off their three part series parsing out this past spring’s beef between Kendrick Lamar and Drake, Hip Hop history in the making. We left off in the breath-holding moment just after Kendrick released “Euphoria” and “6:16 in LA” after …

An illustration by Arthur Wallis Mills from The Strand Magazine, June, 1903. I had not thought the place was there, to tell the truth—a modest-sized frontage in Regent Street, between the picture shop and the place where the chicks run about just out of patent incubators—but there it was sure enough. I had fancied it was down nearer the Circus, or round the corner in Oxford Street, or even in …

On a recent parabolic flight, ESA project astronaut Sławosz Uznański tested a novel robotic gripper that could grapple space debris or gently grasp a living plant.

I’ve been blogging longer than I’ve been on social media. While posts here go back to 2008, I started writing online around 1997 and it took me a while to realize I could migrate between platforms rather than start over. Other than this blog I’ve ran a few others on specific topics. Blogging is the one medium where I feel like I can be myself, online or off and for …

I’ve seen Wicked twice on stage and both times been impressed by the way the show transcends its fantastical roots to deliver a narrative about friendship, prejudice and understanding within such an unlikely premise. It’s an unapologetic musical in the truest sense. This big screen version has done a great job in upgrading the limited production available on stage to give the tale a full cinematic experience. Yet this is …