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The door of the Writers’ Museum. Reading this week: Virunga, Archives and Collections of an Outstanding National Park edited by Patricia Van Schuylenbergh and Han de Koeijer Our final day in Edinburgh began with some light shopping, first of all for donuts at Kilted Donut. That place was great. Between the two of us we got three donuts and couldn’t finish them. We ate them on a bench in the …

A past blog post highlighted the importance of APHA’s collaborative efforts to promote bee health and honey production in Ghana. Honeybees are crucial to agriculture across Ghana, with key crops like shea, cashew, and citrus oil palm relying heavily on them for pollination. Beyond their ecological importance, beekeeping initiatives in Ghana are also focused on creating jobs and generating wealth, contributing to the economic empowerment of local communities. Find out …

The ingredients used to make this novel promise something delectable. There is a deceased and disreputable writer, Cyril Heldman, who wrote weird and occultish tales and who died under very strange circumstances. His literary executor, Catherine Richards, whose house is crammed full of books, papers, newspapers, herself dies bizarrely in the first chapter: by falling from the sky onto the nearby roof of her longtime friend Tanya Sewell, who is …

Jonny Woo: Suburbia is a reflective and raucous act of cabaret at the Soho Theatre “I left,... The post Review: Jonny Woo – Suburbia, Soho Theatre appeared first on There Ought To Be Clowns.

I'm in my 50s and want to quit-- but I don't know if I have "enough". The post I’m 50 And Ready To Quit; A Case Study Update 3 Years Later first appeared on Financial Mechanic.

lingthusiasm:Lingthusiasm Episode 100: A hundred reasons to be enthusiastic about linguisticsThis is our hundredth episode that’s enthusiastic about linguistics! To celebrate, we’ve put together 100 of our favourite fun facts about linguistics, featuring contributions from previous guests and Lingthusiasm team members, fan favourites that resonated with you from the previous 99 episodes, and new facts that haven’t been on the show before but might star in one of the next …

Galerie der Abseitigen Künste/Mille Plateaux, book+USB card, ISBN 978-3948478193, English, 64 pages, 2023, Germany The electric guitar has been playing a structural role for music especially in the second half of the 20th century, and still retains its importance. To acknowledge this, Ciciliani has created a fictional history of the electronic guitar as a performance. The work documents and expands a series of three works: ‘a multimedia performance, a performance …

Two airplanes have just collided on the runway at Tenerife Airport. While no one on the Amsterdam-bound KLM plane survives the resulting fireball, 71 Pan-Am passengers and crew make it off their plane. But could it have been more? Why did so many Pan-Am passengers die, even though they weren’t injured by the initial collision and their plane was still on the ground? This episode was previously released on Pushkin+ …

In my post Brief Note on Figure and Figcaption Support I demonstrate how, when encountering a figure with a screen reader, you won’t hear everything announced at once: No screen reader combo treats the caption as the accessible name nor accessible description, not even for an image that lacks one. Brief Note on Figure and Figcaption Support All Is Well This is a good thing. Users don’t want to hear …

What connects a rear-engine sports car and a manual rangefinder camera? A bold approach to design that turned limitations into legends.

Unstoppable is a mashup of an underdog sports movie and a domestic drama about a family terrorized by an abusive father. The worst thing I can say about it is that it is conventional, but since when is that a crime? A true-life story told in linear fashion with a superior cast still resonates in 2025, especially with this one’s provenance and cast. Jharrel Jerome plays high school wrestler Anthony …

While I was in Brazil, it occurred to me to ask, what if we all lived like Brazil? Above: View of Florianópolis, from my niece’s balcony. Fifty years ago, the trendy worry was about overpopulation: those poor countries were too damn teeming. This now looks both naïve and racist. Growth rates are stabilizing or declining. The problem is too much carbon and oil use, too much waste, too much beef, …

Katherine Rundell’s five audio essays on the power and politics of children’s fiction. So far I’ve listened to the first two and have loved them. Worth your time. Erin Kissane says the big platforms like Facebook are dead on their feet. “The evidence of the past decade and a half argues strongly that platform corporations are structurally incapable of good governance, primarily because most of their central aims (continuous growth, …

Let’s talk about this.Back in 2000, Nathalie Lorson and Alain Astori dropped Paul Smith Men, the British designer’s signature masculine fragrance in an EDT concentration. The bottle? Square, green-tinted glass, and about as unremarkable as they come. The name isn’t even on the front; it’s slapped on the side, which feels oddly self-effacing. The atomizer’s Kelly green, paired with a clear plastic

Vernacular nostalgiaSanding by the river at Snape Maltings and looking across at this house I was suddenly transported back decades to the time when, as a small boy, I began to realise that houses varied in their appearance according to whereabouts in England they were. It must have been on one of our family trips from Gloucestershire to visit my grandparents in rural Lincolnshire. It had been pointed out to …