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An essay worth reading in full on Facebook which contains this amusing footnote: Facebook already had a huge amount of information about people and their social networks and their professed…
Someone said that headlines formulated as questions almost always have the answer “No.” I came across this column on Chess.com which is a reaction to this Wall Street Journal article…
Hugh Aldersey-Williams’ “Tide: The Science and Lore of the Greatest Force on Earth” has a title that sounds hyperbolic, but is endearing in its combination of a certain rhetorical restraint…
Seeing that this documentary is to be broadcast next Saturday I thought it an apt time, though any time would be an apt time, to post about my own research…
From Elizabeth Taylor’s “Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont”: On Sundays – especially p.m. – Ludo was always depressed. Something lowering was in the air : at least three times during…
In Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont, Elizabeth Taylor expertly sketches the lives of the elderly long-term residents of the Claremont Hotel, a somwhat shabby-genteel premises on the Cromwell Road which…
Back in February I reblogged an interview with underwater photographer Liam Marsh. I am pleased to report Liam has now won a British Wildlife Photography Award for a video of…
The Droste Effect is the name given to an image containing a smaller version of that image which contains therefore a smaller version of that image and so on ,…
Séamus Sweeney 