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Our first episode of 2025 features special guest Brock Dittus. Brock is the guy who started the Sprocket Podcast and he’s just an all around wonderful human, former school bus driver, and cargo-biking dad who’s been a big part of the local bike scene. He now lives in Salem, which he gives glowing reviews to in this episode. Among the many fun things we chat about in this episode, you’ll …

I’ve noticed some erratic behavior with the Spotify for Creators app lately. Every morning, over coffee, I read through the comments on the app and reply when appropriate. However, I haven’t been able to access comments for Sleep Tight Relax.This afternoon, I decided to log in to the web-based interface to see if it was just a bug. Spotify’s podcast creator platform is known for being riddled with bugs. Unfortunately, …

A physically lazy day in Nelson, we still got a lot of logistics work accomplished. Nelson CareFree and I were slow to get up this morning, partially because I was (very unusually) restless last night. The hotel staffer that very helpfully agreed to pick up our food from the Woolworths in Mount Gambier arrived shortly before 11, and we quickly unloaded our groceries. We stopped by the nearby information center, …

Back in London this week to do, as I put in an email, the “grown-up parts of moving out”. Also to celebrate the new year. Or at least, that was the plan. You know what they say about the best laid plans? Well lots of things did not go to plan this week, but we still executed on all the important bits. Firstly, and most importantly, I neglected to review …

White Wagtails are one of the most familiar species of songbird across much of Europe and Asia, but here in North America, any time one of these Old World beauties shows up as a vagrant, it causes quite the stir in the birding community. And just before Christmas, that is exactly what happened on the coast of Central California, near the beach town of Santa Cruz.Rare White Wagtail in Santa …

Today’s newsletter begins: Raymond Carver liked to quote Isak Dinesen, who said that she wrote a little every day, without hope and without despair. “Someday,” he wrote, “I’ll put that on a three-by-five-card and tape it to the wall beside my desk.” The poet Tess Gallagher said Dinesen’s words were a “quiet banner of determination” that flew over the last decade of Carver’s life. I used to have an index …

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I often wonder what it felt like for the ancient Greeks, circa 800BC, to be wandering in the ruins of the previous Mycenaean civilisation. These cities they can no longer build; staring at writing they can’t read. The Greeks had to re-discover literacy. I think perhaps they wouldn’t have known what they were looking at. I know that dinosaurs aren’t our ancestors but… it’s adjacent? We live in a world …

Mr. Lewis Sydney playing his Follyphone in September 1912 (Topical Press Agency/Getty Images) The future can be presented in a lot of ways. Sometimes we imagine it in the darkest of terms, a dystopian hellscape that shocks our sense of safety, making us fearful about what’s to come. Other times we imagine the future as utopian—joyful and wondrous with all of the things we could ever want at our fingertips …

Part three of my personal favorites, with 15 landscape & seascape photos from San Diego County, Yosemite Valley, and New England. Read MoreThanks for following Alexander S. Kunz Photography via RSS & keeping independent websites alive. Buy me a coffee? Support @ $3/month. Visit My Print Store. Browse My Photo Archive.

Plans to sell the Greenwich Equestrian Centre were given the green light by a panel of councillors on Wednesday after a challenge to the decision led to a party political row. Last month Greenwich Council’s cabinet approved a proposal to sell the centre on Shooters Hill, as well as a house next to the nearby […] The post Bid to halt sale of Greenwich’s Olympic equestrian centre thrown out appeared …

Bizarre post production flaw. But I liked it enough to keep it.tomorrow will be interesting for me. An old friend and sometimes video production partner recommended me as a still photographer on a film project he's involved with. The shoot will consist mostly of interviews with teachers and b-roll shots of youngsters who participate in a program and teachers. The majority of the set-ups will be outdoors, in a large, …

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. This comment section is open for any non-work-related discussion you’d like to have with other readers, by popular demand. Here are the rules for the weekend posts. Book recommendation of the week: Long Bright River, by Liz Moore. It’s SO GOOD! It’s the story of two sisters, close as children but estranged as adults. When one becomes …

Global average temperatures in 2024 were the hottest on record, surpassing the previous record set in 2023 by a clear margin. In three global temperature assessments released on 10 January, climate scientists reported that temperatures across the world rose faster than expected, reaching 1.46°C–1.62°C above the preindustrial baseline. “The long-term trends are very, very clear,” Gavin Schmidt, director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, told reporters at a …