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[PHOTO] Glitched out
Apr. 13th, 2020 03:14 pm
Going through my photo archives on one of my devices, I found this image. I think photos produced by failure can be eye-catching. You?
Whenever I go do my laundry at my chosen laundromat on Dovercourt Road just north of Hallam Street, I always head down to 77 Food Market on the corner. Sometimes, I pick up sundries there; sometimes, in warmer weather, I just go look at the flowers on display, ready for sale by the sidewalk, arranged neatly on banks of old milk crates.
[BLOG] Some Sunday links
Aug. 25th, 2019 12:31 pm- Bad Astronomer Phil Plait notes the Elon Musk proposal to terraform Mars by dropping nuclear weapons on the planet's ice caps is a bad idea.
- James Bow writes about how the introduction of faeries saved his novel The Night Girl.
- Centauri Dreams looks at the storms of Jupiter.
- The Crux explains the mystery of a village in Poland that has not seen the birth of a baby boy for nearly a decade.
- D-Brief looks at the exoplanets of nearby red dwarf Gliese 1061.
- Cody Delisraty talks of Renaissance painter Fra Angelico.
- Drew Ex Machina commemorates the 30th anniversary of the Voyager 2 flyby of Neptune.
- The Dragon's Tales shares links to some papers about the Paleolithic.
- JSTOR Daily hosts an essay by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger suggesting that Internet rot might be good since it could let people start to forget the past and so move on.
- Language Hat questions whether the phrase "free to all" has really fallen out of use.
- Language Log takes a look about immigration to the United States and Emma Lazarus' famous poem.
- Dan Nexon at Lawyers, Guns and Money takes issue with the suggestion of, among other, Henry Farrell, that we are headed away from globalization towards fortress economies. Redundancy, he suggests, will be more important.
- Marginal Revolution links to a disturbing paper suggesting users of opioids use them in part for social reasons.
- The NYR Daily features an exchange on a new law in Singapore seeking to govern fake news.
- The Power and the Money features a guest post from Leticia Arroyo Abad looking at Argentina before the elections.
- Drew Rowsome takes a look at a new play by Raymond Helkio examining the life of out boxer Mark Leduc.
- Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel considers if we can test gravitational waves for wave-particle duality.
- Arnold Zwicky shares photos of the many flowers of Gamble Garden, in Palo Alto.
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[PHOTO] Sunflower by the Galleria
Aug. 4th, 2019 11:26 pmWhile I was waiting for my bus to work this morning, my eye was caught by the sunflower that had grown up at the base of the pole marking the Dupont street stop southbound for the 29 Dufferin bus, sprouting up out of the pavement to blossom.
