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As a founding member of the Young Voices Council, Emaan has been at the forefront of youth advocacy for futures literacy and climate action. Over the past few months, she has taken this passion to the global stage, participating in crucial climate conferences including COP29. Her journey exemplifies how young voices can shape international dialogue on critical issues affecting our collective future. Here, she shares her powerful experience at COP29: …

Timing is everything in pop culture. Though Denis Villeneuve’s Timothée Chalamet-starring Dune Part 2 was considered by many space geeks to be an Oscar-worthy Science Fiction masterpiece, it was released near the beginning of February 2024. Any spiced melange buzz it may have created at that time will have fizzled with the last minute contenders like eighties ‘pop-corn actress’ Demi Moore, who is currently having a moment with her Golden …

Hey everyone, this post is for everyone, but it’s a part of a new series I’m doing on More Birchtree where I review the books and games I read and play in 2025. My movie reviews have been a relative hit on social media for the last few years, and while nothing will change with those, I did want to share more suggestions since movies aren’t the only medium I …

Here are J. M. W. Turner's The Fall of an Avalanche in the Grisons (1810) and an explosive rock fall in Victor Kossakovsky's new essay film Architecton. I watched the latter from the safety of my cinema seat, immersed in the noise and right up close to the violence of rocks crashing down and smashing into themselves. As Burke said of the Sublime, where you are not at risk of …

It has been a long time tince we last laid hands on a release from the Tool Watch Company. I reviewed the Arctic Explorer in November 2021, so I’d say… The post Tool Watch Co. Rally appeared first on The Time Bum.

Somewhere in the World Right Now by Stacey Schuett, 1995. This picture book explains time zones by showing what people and animals all over the world are doing at the same time, reminding children that, somewhere in the world right now, it’s a different time of day. The book begins with A Note to the Reader, explaining that it takes 24 hours for the Earth to make one full rotation …

The Guy Who Did This ‘We’re All Trying to Find the Guy Who Did This’ Charlie Warzel / theatlantic.com That Zuckerberg should look out over his kingdom and see it as “out of touch” isn’t a criticism of “woke” Democrats or a regulation-crazy government: It’s a criticism of the way he himself capitulates.

I have a number of GitHub repositories on my Mac and I wanted a way to auto-pull them on a regular basis. Here's how I did it. Any regular readers of my waffle will know that I'm not the sharpest tool in the box. Git is a core part of my workflow for a number of my projects, but being the sausage that I am, I often forget to pull …

R. Ives Gammell, one of the keepers of the academic flames, makes an interesting point about art teaching:“A painter’s training does not consist primarily in instruction as to the handling of his materials. Such knowledge is extremely important, of course, but it is not the main thing. The essential purpose of a painter’s training should be to equip him with the means of solving any problem suggested to him by …

In 2023, I scaled TokyoDev from a one-man operation to a team. The idea was to get some tasks off my plate, but while I’ve succeeded at passing off responsibilities to others, I somehow didn’t gain any more free time. This is because working with new people also created new ideas and opportunities, which I haven’t been able to pass up. In 2024, we saw the first fruits of this …

When we walk we can walk with our ancestors and future generations. Maybe they had to walk with sorrow; perhaps they were forced to march or migrate. When we … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞

I was just in Seattle for the Joint Meetings and had dinner with an old friend. I asked her 15-year-old daughter, who’s lived in Seattle all her life, if she knew who Kurt Cobain was, and she looked at me with a slight tinge of recognition and said, “Did…. he play basketball?” I do really love Seattle. I love the rocks coming out of the water, I love the pointy …

Here we are at Catcott Crossing again, for back in olden times very few of the level crossing cottages had running water. So to avoid drinking water from puddles, catching rain, drinking bog water or simply drinking, cooking and washing in cider, fresh water was regularly delivered in milk churns and delivered by passing engine crews. Pete and Dud wait for arthritic Arthur to swap an empty churn for a …

Random reading brought me to Salammbo. It’s possibly not a book I would have chosen for myself, but chance has its way. LibraryThing’s Folly feature then lived up to its promise, pulling from just two shelves of my alphabetically arranged library: a Bernhard, a Beckett, and a Belben. I reread fifty pages of Molloy before putting it aside, wanting something new. The Belben and Bernhard, both minor, didn’t hold my …

This week managed to be a bit better than the last one, though I am still going to the hospital on a daily basis (still 100% attendance so far for 2025). The situation has stabilized for a bit, and I even have someone taking turns with me spending the night, so I don't have to sleep there all the time. It's not ideal, and we're still not sure how long …