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In 2024, Congress enacted, and President Biden signed, the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, which bans “foreign adversary” ownership of certain types of Internet services. The bill…

What makes for a good blog? Merlin Mann, writing in 2008, the golden age of blogging if ever there was one, has a few answers to the question: Good blogs…

Like all nerds, I revere Brian Eno. When MusicRadar asked for a column about him, I jumped on it. They wanted something about his generative music, and Music For Airports…

The musician from Chattanooga, Tennessee Jason Lyles, is preparing to enter the new year of 2025 with style, releasing this captivating and delicate single in January.

I’m a big fan of Big Idea Design pens, ever since I bought their Ti Arto (still their most innovative and all around useful pen). I have their Ti Click…

It was a little past noon when I realized I hadn’t eaten all morning. Because I hadn’t been hungry. And I wasn’t in the mood to cook. But now I…

  Fundamental definition and basic discussion for comprehending the rest of this post Dalit From Hindi दलित (dalit, “downtrodden, oppressed”), from Sanskrit दलित (dalita, “broken, scattered”). Learned borrowing from Sanskrit…

Temperatures are about to drop all across North America, so what better time to peruse a stack of new book and ARCs! What here would you like to snuggle up…

This week, we’re going to talk a bit about the brothers Tiberius (trib. 133) and Gaius (trib. 123-2) Gracchus, the famous Roman reformers of the late second century. There’s actually…

A convenient way to grab all my Seacritters updates in one place.

… that I convinced my mother to do her errands yesterday, and not today. The high for today was forecast to be -4C/25F – with a blizzard warning. During the…

I’ve previously written about the amazing story of Julius Robert Mayer, the physician — not physicist — who first conceived of the concept of conservation of energy, and how he…

today in the New York Times From one day to the next, you inhabit one body; you have access to one set of memories; your personality, values and appearance hold…

Fermilab has spent almost $2 billion on its Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE). Physicists have claimed that the experiment is worthwhile because learning more about neutrinos will tell us why…

var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true}; Most of the two-year-olds I've ever met could already sing at least part of the Alphabet Song. I didn't teach it to them. It's something that…

While I am never certain if Pantone’s Color of the Year choices are an accurate predictor of color trends or if, because Pantone says its the color of the year,…

Hello, and welcome to 2025. Is it that time already? The possessive apostrophe (or rather, the abuse of the possessive apostrophe) is a recurrent guest star here at Shady Characters,…

The exterior of the Caltech Submilimeter Observatory atop Mauna Kea is chock full of triangles, squares, hexagons, curves, lines, etc. You could check it out, except that it’s invisible! Well,…

Today's links Fu-Schnickens: Some upbeat earworms for a not-so-great week. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2020, 2024 Upcoming appearances: Where to…

Sharing my favorite images from the early days of photography... The post Early photography: Sami people traveling at lake Luossajärvi, Lappland, Sweden first appeared on Cendrine Marrouat - Artist.