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28
Aug
I Would Like Everyone To Applaud My Restraint
Thirteen things this Thursday that I have read, watched, listened to or otherwise found noteworthy.
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27
Aug
A Body Made of Glass: Polish Edition
The Polish edition of my book A Body Made of Glass is published today by Wydawnictwo Czarne, in a translation
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22
Aug
“Single Largest Self-Promotion Operation In Wikipedia’s History”
A Wikipedia editor has uncovered what looked like a decade-long attempt at self-promotion by a minor American composer, David Woodard.
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21
Aug
Little Lithuania
I don't at all understand how this video was made, but I enjoyed flying around a miniaturised Baltic
21
Aug
Even If You Found It Very Annoying In The Mid 2000s
Thirteen things this Thursday that I have read, watched, listened to or otherwise found noteworthy.
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21
Aug
The Duchess's Sequence of Ideas
In Clouds of Witness by Dorothy L. Sayers, the Dowager Duchess is always getting her quotations confused. But this isn&
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20
Aug
A Retired Michigan Police Dog Is Now Helping Track Deadly Bacteria In Bees
I promise I am interested in how this new innovation will help to save bees from bacteria, but I am
20
Aug
Nine Regrets
A thought provoking list. As a perpetual diary-abandoner, I'm trying to let this one inspire me:
"I
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19
Aug
The Organ Episode
I have made no secret of my obsession with pipe organs (my favourite podcast is still Hot Pipes). I am
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19
Aug
Dicing An Onion The Mathematically Optimal Way
I believe I have heaped praise upon data journalism outfit The Pudding before, but I'm doing it again
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