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Sheep safely grazing Seen on our walk this evening as we passed a large meadow containing lots of contented sheep. Click on the image to see a larger v…
John Naughton
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Quote of the Day “Ireland is not a romantic dream; it is not a flag; it is 4.5 million people divided into two powerful traditions. The solution will b…
John Naughton
Aug 4
Quote of the Day Can the planet afford more and more machine-learning? This morning’s Observer column on GPT-3: The apparent plausibility of GPT-3’s pe…
John Naughton
Aug 3
Waving, not drowning Click on the image to see a larger size. Today’s musical replacement for the morning’s radio news Jan Lisiecki: Chopin’s Nocturne …
John Naughton
Aug 2
Quote of the Day Why is flying so bad? Because it takes a lot of energy to lift a metal bucket full of people and suitcases into the air. Go figure: a …
John Naughton
Aug 1
Quote of the Day Every time Trump opens his mouth, he convinces somebody out there to vote for Biden. Jack Shafer Musical alternative to Radio 4’s ‘Tod…
John Naughton
Jul 31
Summer by the lake Wednesday 29 July, 2020 Today’s musical alternative to Radio 4’s ‘Today’ programme John Field’s Nocturne #5 in B flat major played b…
John Naughton
Jul 30
Quote of the Day A handful of very large, very rich companies that need fewer and fewer workers doesn’t add up to an economy. Rana Foroohar, Financial …
John Naughton
Jul 29
Windows into the past My wife is currently going through her family archive, and keeps coming up with astonishing photographs. This is a shot of a Moth…
John Naughton
Jul 28
A note to subscribers If you elected to receive this blog as a daily email and are finding that it’s not arriving regularly (as some people have been),…
John Naughton
Jul 27
Crooked timber I never see trees like this without thinking of Kant’s sardonic observation: “Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing w…
John Naughton
Jul 26
Quote of the Day “Most of what we call civilisation depends on reciprocal vulnerability” Thomas Schelling (one of the many things demagogues don’t unde…
John Naughton
Jul 25
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