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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
1 day 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 …
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1 day 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 ...
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 …
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.
01 | December | 2024 | Occam's Typewriter
Dec 1, 2024 · Waiting for Christmas Today is the first day of Advent. In Christian tradition this is a time of preparation and waiting for the arrival of the infant Jesus on Christmas Day.
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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09 | December | 2024 | Occam's Typewriter
Dec 9, 2024 · When I was a child 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child… — from 1 Corinthians 13:11, NRSVA In school, I hated sports.
24 | October | 2024 | Occam's Typewriter
Oct 24, 2024 · I came to Mary Wollstonecraft late, as it were, not even having come across her name until relatively recently. Perhaps that is a shameful admission, but I think she has become much more visible of late, not least due to …