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Notes from the Road crushes Patrick Moore's claims about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch from Chapter 6 of his book, highlighting scientific evidence and environmental impacts of oceanic plastic pollution.

A thought or two about the time I have left on this mortal coil and what I'll do with it

Kai no Kiseki: Farewell, O Zemuria’s ending leaves us a cliffhanger. The hype reaches climax for the series as a whole. But it’s not the ending just yet; it steps…

Hi everyone, and happy last monthly notes of the year! Yearly recaps will follow in early January, so if you’ve missed some recommendations you can have a shortened list soon!…

To round off the week of Julie’s birthday, we went for dinner at The Brisley Bell last night, somewhere we have been only once before. This lovely pub in a…

If ever there was a litmus test about who to avoid, it’s the people who see the language of the Equal Rights Amendment in the 21st Century and think, “oh,…

A weekly collection of seven interesting links

A new paper in the QJE, The Global Race for Talent: Brain Drain, Knowledge Transfer, and Growth, by Marta Prato uses extensive data on inventors and their migration to make…

Visitors walk Oregon's Cannon Beach on a cold, overcast, late-winter day. The post On the Oregon Coast first appeared on 75CentralPhotography.

In 1985 when a snowfall blocked the city starting from the day of January 6 when the Romans woke up and opening the windows discovered a Rome covered by 20…

We’re going to take every single John, charge them with sex trafficking, and put them in prison for five years?  –  Patrick Noonan I’m Sure You Feel Safer Now And…

18th January 2025 The final piece of evidence which shows, on balance, that it was not intended as a serious legal letter * So far this blog (here and here) has provided…

There are days that feel like over- ripe fruit: bruised, sittingsadly in the bowl after having been handled then returned, or peeled after hesitation only to be discarded. I want…

 I had some glace cherries leftover from Christmas and was wanting to use them up.  I spied this recipe for an Irish Cherry Tea Cake over on Irish American Mom.…

[One from the archives, a previously unpublished short story I wrote c. 2017 on the theme of BASE jumping.] Why anyone thought a prison on the Moon was a good…

Highlight of the week: heard from several people in response to my post on friction in indie web connection 😄 Looking forward to: making this blood orange olive oil cake…

This post was originally typo’d with “bog” instead of “blog”. As that Oblique Strategy says, honour thy error as a hidden intention. I’ve written before about the things I look…

On December 1, we were called to a house fire in our company area, about 2 kilometers from our firehouse. It was a weekend. Because many of us were off…

I am feeling—not thinking—something so sad and so needy and as this feeling widens within me and begins to bubble at my edges, like the frothy tide, my hand jerks…

Source: Better Business BureauThe daily news is filled with personal stories about bad experiences with banks. Here’s a recent example. In November 2024, a charity inadvertently accepted a fake check…