in Books | August 4th, 2025 Leave a Comment BlueskyFacebookThreadsMastodonRedditMessageEmailShare Dan Pelz­er died ear­li­er this year at the age of 92, leav­ing behind a hand­writ­ten list of all the books he’d read since 1962. His fam­i­ly had it dig­i­tized, put it online, and now it’s gone…

Reaction scheme and energetic level of the investigated reaction of the helium hydride ion with deuterium. It is a swift and barrierless reaction, contrary to earlier theories. Background: The planetary nebula NGC 7027, with molecular hydrogen visible in red. Credit: Schematic: MPIK; Background…

Douglas Hofstadter is probably best known as the author of Gödel, Escher Bach, a classic of popular science writing published in 1979. In 1983, he coined the word “ambigram”, meaning a piece of text that can be read in more than one way, an art form pioneered in the 1970s by the typographers Scott…

The quest to make an ice cream that doesn't melt 3 hours ago Veronique Greenwood Getty Images (Credit: Getty Images) Ice cream is a staple of summer – but melts quickly when the mercury rises. Can scientists help it keep its cool? Few things delight on a summer day like an ice cream cone. Few things…

What It Means A tapestry is a heavy textile characterized by complicated pictorial designs and used for hangings, curtains, and upholstery. In figurative use, tapestry may refer to anything made up of different things, people, colors, etc. // The walls were adorned with handwoven tapestries. // They…

What It Means Egregious is a formal word used to describe things that are conspicuously bad. // Leaving one’s phone on during a performance is an egregious breach of theater etiquette. See the entry > egregious in Context “When a cutting-edge A.I. misbehaves in a particularly egregious way, it can…

LAND’S END to JOHN O’GROATS and BACKJULY 2006 INTRODUCTION - The Bit before the First Bit This account should carry a health warning. It’s full of places, roads, and directions, complete with descriptions of hills, cafes and pubs between Land's End and John O'Groats, and unless you have a good road…

When asked what advice he had for actors, Denzel Washington pulled out an interesting quote: First part of your life you learn, second part of your life you earn, third part of your life you return. I had considered including this quote in my Enough post because the quote feels good. It rhymes and…

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