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Learn how to grow your own food, self sufficient homesteading skills, permaculture and more on the courses at my homestead in Ceredigion. I am looking forward to welcoming you here […] The post Courses here at the Homestead for 2025 – a quick update appeared first on Stephanie Hafferty.

My Oxford student Emma Palmer and I have been thinking about worldly cardinals and Gödel-Bernays GBC set theory, and we recently came to a new realization. Namely, what I realized is that every worldly cardinal $\kappa$ admits a Gödel-Bernays structure, … Continue reading →

I joined Kooth as Chief Technology Officer just over a year ago. Kooth has spent the last two decades building digital mental health services for young people to help provide early and responsive mental health support. I recently shared my reflections on my first year with the team, and wanted to also share them here. It’s incredible to work on such a meaningful purpose One of the things that drew …

Translated from Spanish. Original version is below this translation. ⭐ 1 star If you’ve had the chance to visit Retiro Park, you’ll know how beautiful the plants are. If you sit on a bench and observe one of them, you would have to wait a long time to see them grow. That is the experience I’ve had at “A Mano,” where the food takes longer to arrive than watching a …

“’Tis the solitude of the Country that creates these Whimsies; there was never such a thing as a Ghost heard of at London, except in the Play-house.” Joseph Addison, The Drummer (1716) “I hope you will consider it no impertinence, my dear sir, that I should ask such a thing, but in truth I can no longer restrain myself. Sir, have you never felt an inclination to investigate what lies …

“This moody depiction of the Christmas slayings… is as murky as the script, which dotes largely on obscenities that are no more pointed than the violence, dull direction and pedestrian performances.” — A.H. Weiler, New York Times, October 20, 1975, page 45. Released in the U.S. on December 20, 1974, just in time for the … Continue reading The Dark Side of Christmas: Exploring Bob Clark’s Pioneering Slasher Black Christmas …

Recently I was toying with the somewhat new GitHub feature that allows you to create a repository with the same name as your GitHub username and host in it a README.md file that then is displayed in your profile and visible to whoever visits your profile page. While this feature is good, it’s not too dynamic, but there are two things in our favour: a) GitHub Actions are free for …

“Three soldiers of the Coldstream Guards were walking in Montgomery street. Onegavean opinion in which all concurred. It was the woman, they said; he showed himself a man afterwards.” James Joyce ‘Finnegans Wake’ At around midnight on Tuesday the 3rd October 1922, a married couple Percy and Edith Thompson were walking back to their house on Kensington Gardens from Ilford train station. They had spent the evening in London at …

Just a quick update on my new workbench: I have attached the slab top (with pegs like a Moravian workbench) and oiled it a few times (with untinted Danish Oil), which I think looks super neat. I’ve also bored holdfast holes in the top (12″ back from the front edge of the bench and 14.5″ […]

Suhas Hey o1, I was reading a blog post from Lonza titled “Better, Faster Pharma Manufacturing with Lonza’s AI Route Design” and I was wondering if you could help me understand the synthetic steps in drug development. In the post, the author says: Over the past two decades, I have witnessed a dramatic evolution in the landscape of active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) and drug substance development. While the usual synthetic …

By the late 1930s, Ernst Lubitsch had firmly cemented his status as one of the top directors working in Hollywood. After starting his career making silent films in Europe, he came to the United States to direct Mary Pickford in 1923’s Rosita. From there, he built a reputation for his distinctive brand of sophistication and easily made the transition from silent films to talkies. Over the years, Lubitsch directed, wrote, …

In the final act of Jason Reitman’s Saturday Night, Matt Woods’s John Belushi ice skates in his bee costume in an empty rink in Rockefeller Plaza, as Ella Hunt’s Gilda Radner and the iconic gold statue of Prometheus look on. Wondering if John “ever had nostalgia for a moment while [he was] still in it,” Gilda proceeds to talk about being in the moment and simultaneously being in the future …

A Christmas tree-t in the form of various trees to cut out & make. All by the paper artist Maho Motoyama. More here.

There’s been a few viral posts about how harmful chemical sunscreens are. The latest one is a post about “Sunscreen Swaps” from @a.glimpse.of.amelia (an Australian “low-tox” consultant) and @jordiepieface (a nutritionist from New Zealand), claiming that “some conventional sunscreens can do more harm than good”. Unfortunately, most of the post is inaccurate, and it’s likely scaring people away from using ... Read more Source

I get up, get dressed, and meander into the kitchen rubbing the sleep from my bleary eyes while the morning sun reflects off sides of buildings. I grab the portafilter from the espresso machine, give it a clean wipe, and place it under the grinder. I pull out 18 grams of pre-measured beans and pour it into the machine, turning it on, watching the chocolate-coloured fines shoot out. I spread …