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Dec 17, 2024 · Robertson Meadows: mandolin, guitar, and a couple of great voices. June 9-10. Taylor’s in Detroit, Michigan.Not so very far away in Simcoe, Ontario, is the Norfolk County Fairgrounds Festival, where over two days we had local singer Felicia McMinn (who I missed due to backstage meet-n-greet photo duties, but have seen on other occasions), and a great line-up of pop and rock acts: Dizzy, The ...
27 | December | 2024 | Occam's Typewriter
2 days ago · Daniel Finkelstein: Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad I am sure you both know that Daniel Finkelstein is a journalist and Conservative peer, and you probably are also aware that he is, like me, a Red-Sea Pedestrian, whose world view is …
What I Read In December | The End Of The Pier Show
2 days ago · Daniel Finkelstein: Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad I am sure you both know that Daniel Finkelstein is a journalist and Conservative peer, and you probably are also aware that he is, like me, a Red-Sea Pedestrian, whose world view is inevitably coloured by the Holocaust and its consequences. His perhaps more than most, as the families of both his parents were all but wiped out, one by Hitler, the ...
17 | December | 2024 | Occam's Typewriter
Dec 17, 2024 · Well, it’s been about a week since the end of Taylor Swift’s monumental Eras Tour. Millions attended, and I’d presume that millions more, like me, never even got half a sniff at a ticket.
08 | December | 2024 | Occam's Typewriter
Dec 8, 2024 · When I first started writing this blog in 2010, I imagined I was going to write about the science that interested me, the latest papers in my field that caught my eye, and specifically highlight the excitement and challenge of …
22 | December | 2024 | Occam's Typewriter
6 days ago · You could write an entire PhD thesis about how difficult it is for academics to relax on holiday. (And whoever’s writing it would be lying on the sofa by the Christmas tree right now, fretting about how they really ought …
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2021 | Occam's Typewriter
One final look back before I turn to face 2022. Following a practice started last year, I have maintained a thread of tweet-sized reviews of the books that I read in 2021 – all of them.
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Sep 27, 2022 · Age Proof: The New Science of Living a Longer and Healthier Life, by Professor Rose Anne Kenny;. Different: What Apes Can Teach Us About Gender, by Frans de Waal;. Hot Air: The Inside Story of the Battle against Climate Change Denial, by Peter Stott;. Spike: The Virus vs the People, by Jeremy Farrar, with Anjana Ahuja;. and
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Oct 31, 2024 · “The Ruffian” is great title for Ian Leslie’s Substack given his predilection for roughing up lazy thinking. I first came across him as the author of “Conflicted”, an excellent book about how to disagree constructively, a practice he frequently deploys …