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Some suggested reading: AI and dopamine
Andrew Curry’s thoughtful newletter ‘Just Two Things’ arrives in my inbox three times a week (which, I confess, is slightly too often for me always to give it the attention it deserves). The two...
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No Photoshop needed!
I was, unfortunately, beheaded today, while visiting Teylers Museum in Haarlem. This was a trifle inconvenient, but I still managed to smile about it. This is straight out of the iPhone camera, with...
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Remote Hero?
I know some of my readers will have seen this on John’s blog, but for others… A wonderful thing has happened. There is a new and marvellous recording of one of my all-time favourite tracks, Mark...
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A load of cobblers
The Dutch, I gather, don’t have a specific word for ‘pothole’ because, well, they don’t need one. Having just returned from a two-week campervan tour there, I don’t think I saw a single one. I knew I...
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I’m fond of both milk and dark chocolate. Milk chocolate is yummy kiddy comfort food. Dark chocolate is more sophisticated, more bitter, more ‘adult’. It’s also less likely to melt at inconvenient...
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A cautionary travel tale
On Monday evening, I had a ticket booked to bring me back on the overnight ferry from the Hook of Holland to Harwich. (Here’s a bit of trivia for you: ‘Hook of Holland’ is actually a mistranslation of...
View ArticleAnd the lion shall lie down with…?
From our “this may help you win a bet in the pub” collection… If you know the quiz show ‘QI’, you might imagine Stephen Fry asking “With whom will the lion lie down?”, and Alan Davies sheepishly...
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