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"The low waters of the [Danube] have resulted in several unexpected discoveries. ... And a resident of the northeastern Bulgarian city of Ruse found bones on the Danube river bed, …

The saying goes: it takes ten years to become an overnight success. As for the stick or twist question, if your only goal is to make money then twisting whenever it seems to make t…

TL;DR: Bureaucracy in public institutions is not principally a management pathology. It is the cumulative result of a largely logical process. It is generated by policy and rendere…

I assumed this was a new euphemism for layoffs

Done this. Good question but I don't think it's the most helpful way of thinking about it. Every new recruit brings their own assumptions about how organizations / employment / etc…

+1 on Mint, specifically with the Cinnamon desktop environment for people leaving Windows

Saw this mentioned in a comment recently , I just downloaded, installed and used it to find a file while Windows Search was still saying 'Working on it...'. So I thought others mig…

The Science Media Centre (UK) has a round up of expert reactions https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-announ...

The robing room chair of state

Simon Willison has helpful recent advice on this: Here’s how I use LLMs to help me write code (11th March 2025) https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/11/us.ing-llms-for-code/

Sometimes the BBC does make mistakes but this seems to fit their style guide: "Treat collective nouns - companies, governments and other bodies - as singular. There are some except…

It might help to know that blindness takes many forms. Having no sight at all is what many people assume but is not what many blind people experience. So some blind people can use …

If you're going to start something, you need to be running to it not running from something else. Running your own thing can be great but will be hard. The culture may well not be …

Ask a lawyer whether it is actually enforceable

One of my biggest lessons from running a growing organization was: always have one level better financial advice than you think you need. So, get an accountant from the beginning a…

"Cosmological models are built on a simple, century-old idea – but new observations demand a radical rethink" (2023) https://theconversation.com/cosmological-models-are-built-on...…

Remember that senior roles are about building teams around you to get the job done. I'm wondering if your current experience reflects what the job has to be, or whether you could s…

Crash into a nuclear waste container, of course https://blog.railwaymuseum.org.uk/operation-smash-hit/