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Meet Hero The mascot of the Center for the Art of Translation (CAT) https://www.catranslation.org Here is a depiction embellishing a banner Hero supplies the perfect anchorage for a visual mnemonic. And so for day 2486 03.10.2013

Julia Cooper The Last Word: Reviving the Dying Art of Eulogy When you are pressured to get over grief in a timely fashion, time itself begins to feel restrictive, like the tightening straps of a straitjacket that draw your arms … Continue reading →

Zhu Xiao-Mei Bach – The French Suites BWV 812-817 from the back of the CD case It is with children in mind that I recorded these French Suites, always having heartfelt simplicity and purity in their mind. Children see the … Continue reading →

The Secrets of the Wood Wide Web The New Yorker Robert Macfarlane The implications of the Wood Wide Web far exceed this basic exchange of goods between plant and fungi, however. The fungal network also allows plants to distribute resources-sugar, … Continue reading →

Sir Leonard Woolley Ur In describing what is illustrated before us, Sir Leonard stresses the serial nature of ceramic production. From his comments on Plate 1 Pottery of the Al ‘Ubaid Period, we learn of his astonishment of the craftsmanship … Continue reading →

Doctor Who – The Pirate Planet by James Goss based on the scripts by Douglas Adams The Doctor listened to their conversation and smiled. Romana still had a lot to learn about the universe. How could a planet have a … Continue reading →

Not the type of entry one would expected in a travel guide … Claridges [hotel] It was here in 1943 that Szmul Zygielbojm, from the Polish government-in-exile, was told that Roosevelt had refused his request to bomb the rail lines … Continue reading →

There is a delightful chiastic malapropism causing tickling the brain with anticipation and retrospection … “This,” said the Doctor, fully aware that he was showing off, “is like taking fish from a baby.” […] “I really must stop doing this, … Continue reading →