Category Archives: General

Trouble at t’Mall

Originally posted on RICHARD J WILLIAMS:
Something’s up with cities, as recent articles in The Economist and the FT attest. In the rich world, for decades we’ve held the notion of cities as basket cases to be endured rather than enjoyed. Few…

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Foundry

Originally posted on The Puzzle Factory:
Automet foundry melting aluminium off old car parts in trafford park

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Manchester Town Hall

Originally posted on Being 42:
Tuesday 17th September 2013, 9.40am (day 754) In case this hasn’t been apparent from the pictures, it’s been raining for about three days now: not heavily, but persistently. As it always seems to around now, just…

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Loneliness

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Weekly drumming in Recife Antigo

Originally posted on Eyes On Recife:
In Recife Antigo, there’s a weekly drumming event (PT) called Traga a Vasilha that’s been going on since the year 2000. It happens for an hour every Friday starting at 11PM on Rua Mariz e…

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Achieving synchrony

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Four-dimensional star collapse

Originally posted on ZeptoGram:
Victor De Schwanberg/Science Photo Library A new cosmological theory holds that our universe may have been created from the collapse of a star existing in four dimensions. In this higher dimension, a star that exploded as…

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Modern Merengue Piano Basics

Originally posted on Jason Lyon Music:
Jaime Colson – El merengue (1938) If you’ve found this article, you probably don’t need to be told what merengue is. But let’s run things down very briefly to start us off. Merengue, the…

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Ubuntu and animals

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Troll ‘Keyboard Warrior’ @ the Kings Arms Theatre, Salford

Originally posted on dramareviewer's Blog:
 Wow! I came out of this show about 2 hours ago and I felt that I needed to write my review straight away. This piece of theatre was truly thought provoking and extremely relevant…

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