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My Mexican holiday has been upgraded with a cracking novel from the pen of Prof. Will Fowler 😊🇲🇽@StAModLangs
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The incredible 'Gabriel's Oboe' from the soundtrack of The Mission played so beautifully by the musicians of @MusicSurrounds @ASBlackheath One more chance to hear it tomorrow 28th Dec 6pm & 8pm @StMaryIslington: ticketsource.co.uk/surround-sound
Great piece by @joshuarothman, drawing from @ShannonVallor, @random_walker, @sayashk and @geoffreyhinton. The potential and limitations of AI start and end with the potential and limitations of HI—and we've only been trying to grapple with those for the last 40,000 years or so.
If only this passage by Darwin was more widely known. Here "fitness for survival" entails the higher mental qualities of sympathy and the love of fellows.
Amazing article about songbirds interacting with human music-makers. I love Sam Lee's description of nightingales as “decorators of silence”: “They sing and they are quiet. They listen.” on.ft.com/3KoGsCc
I had to place a pre-order with my local bookshop after reading the description, "The Wicker Man meets Rebecca" (!). PLUS, it's got a suspect character who has the same extremely rare name as my ex! I hope Slater is not toooo unkind to said person. ;)
I had to place a pre-order with my local bookshop after reading the description, "The Wicker Man meets Rebecca" (!). PLUS, it's got a suspect character who has the same extremely rare name as my ex! I hope Slater is not toooo unkind to said person. ;)
Loving this review. It's art critique at its most artful expression (in every sense of the word). And at it fairest too. @TimSmith_Laing apollo-magazine.com/king-charles-i…
"Instead of one period of education, one of work and one of retirement, it will make sense for people to mix the three up. People will go back to study, repeatedly. They will take breaks, repeatedly. They will change what they do, repeatedly." on.ft.com/3UJzkoq
A tiny little rhyme about last night. :) a2ndhandhalo.wordpress.com/2024/05/11/aur…
If this has even a tiny fraction of the genius of Juan Pablo Villalobos' novella (which contains a sentence that is at once the most hilarious and the most heart-breaking in the Spanish language), then we're in for a treat. youtube.com/watch?v=XlU09H…
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Join us in congratulating Prof Will Fowler (#Spanish) whose novel 'Patriotas' has just come out in Mexico; a family saga set in the 19th Century. He’ll be heading out to Mexico next week for the book launch. ow.ly/nwAx50RqnPK
Pretty relevant suggestion: "To avoid repeating past mistakes, Western policymakers should beware reifying the Global South, as if it were a single entity, and instead tailor strategies of engagement to specific countries..." carnegieendowment.org/2023/08/15/ter…
Just in case: @NetworkEmerging
The pollution of the seas with plastic is not good news by any accounts, but the figure of the hermit crab adapting to whatever it can in order to live reminds me a lot of us humans. We also adapt to more or less beautiful forms in order to survive. bbc.co.uk/newsround/6810…
Guau!!! 😃 Me comen las ganas por esta adaptación de la fenomenal novela de Juan Pablo Villalobos.
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Happy birthday, Benjamin Zephaniah!
Acabo de ver el documental sobre Frida Kahlo de Carla Gutiérrez. Me dejó más fascinado de lo que ya estaba con Frida. Su frase, "muchas vidas no serían suficientes para pintar como yo quisiera y todo lo que yo que yo quisiera" se me hace la cosa más fantástica alguna vez dicha.💓
There's the most unnecessarily beautiful pairing of crescent moon and Jupiter in the sky tonight. I hope you can catch a sight of it.
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