Tried to book trains to Torino from London. No problem booking, but impossible to pay nearly £1000 for two people round trip. We are flying and we really don't want to. The subsidies should be paid to rail not air travel.
Which is more ominous: flood, or the ebb?
Falstaff dies “just between twelve and one, ev’n at the turning o’ th’ tide.” But at the end of Moby-Dick, Captain Ahab tells Starbuck: “Some men die at ebb tide; some at low water; some at the full of the flood.”
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spare a thought for Estonian, in which öö means night, which sounds like a scary night to me, and looks like two owls sitting on a branch
2026.
A brutal war between an authoritarian regime of religious fanatics violating human rights and international law and threatening nuclear annihilation.
And Iran.
Nah.Too obvious. I was trying to find tracks for individual elements
Remarkable that the agricultural inheritance tax changes which will affect less than 200 estates a year gets a long news report but insane changes to self-employed tax reporting which will burden millions with massive extra bureaucracy is completely ignored.
But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?
an ancient cart filled with manure has lost a wheel and a traffic cone has been placed as a warning
new Brexit metaphor
I have only two demands now:
1. that the whole 40 episodes be available on BBC Sounds in perpetuity;
2. another series, please: 21st Century Radicals?
I’m going to miss Radio 3’s series 20th Century Radicals. Ear-opening radio brilliantly curated by Kate Molleson and Gillian Moore www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...
see Sagan, C., Possible Contribution of Lunar Nuclear Weapons Detonations to the Solution of Some Problems in Planetary Astronomy (1958)
. . . and their favourable intentions towards the public good, the just recompense that he must expect is that the Foreigners have the veneration and love for him as much as the French themselves, and that they wish equally the long duration of his life and reign.’
On the same day he writes to Louis XIV’s minister, Colbert, and fawningly to the king himself: ‘I will say only that when distributing his benefits Your Majesty makes no distinction between his subjects and foreigners, considering only the virtuous inclination of the person, . . .
‘However, I have noticed how our people 🇳🇱 are slow and reluctant to adopt something new even though the utility is manifest.’ #innovatie
26 March 1665 is a busy day at the writing desk for Christiaan Huygens. He reports to his father that he has been in Amsterdam meeting seamen, including the cartographer Joan Blaeu, about his more accurate clocks, of which, he says proudly, ‘cannot deny the utility’. He adds, though . . .
Nice. But have you tried New Finnish Grammar? @drannaclark.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/books/2011/m...
& this is Thomas Browne: ‘The Field of knowledge hath been so traced, it is hard to spring any thing new. Of old things we write something new, If truth may receive addition, or envy will have any thing new; since the Ancients knew the late Anatomicall discoveries, and Hippocrates the Circulation.’
Great post (and not least for the illustration of the fanciest – and tidiest – alchemical laboratory ever!)
paging Steve Reich
Some great tips here on making Google work for you rather than serve up stuff tailored to existing biases and sponsored links: open.substack.com/pub/cardcata....
How did the man Bertrand Russell called ‘the noblest and most lovable of the great philosophers’ actually make his living? 🔍
www.psychologytoday.com/au/blog/a-cu...
Sunlight travels 93 million miles to reach the earth
None of them through the Strait of Hormuz
billmckibben.substack.com/p/sunlight-t...
I know it’s not the main story here, but I do wonder exactly what level of literacy they aspire to at BBC News these days
🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work.
This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public.
Please spread the word.
🧵 1/4
part of the medieval walls of Norwich, showing path of foundations at ground level and a section of standing wall
A line made by walling.
Part of the medieval walls of Norwich, a greater circumference than London’s #AFineCity
Not exclusively #EarlyModern, but I’ve found this a useful first port of call:
publicdomainreview.org/sources/
My first book award shortlisting. @latimes.com. From 30 years ago! Pretty happy to havee lost out to Carl Sagan tbh!
“The Uncertain Heavens: Christiaan Huygens’ Ideas of Extraterrestrial Life”, @HoooAW's essay exploring the first scientifically informed speculation about extraterrestrial life: publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-uncertain-heav...
