from Outside the gates by Molly Gloss
And he liked to feel himself part of that big family, to share in their noisy, open love.
1 February 2019
How To Kill Your Tech Industry
by Marie Hicks In World War II, Britain invented the electronic computer. By the 1970s, its computing industry had collapsed—thanks to a labor shortage produced by sexism.
3 November 2018
The fallacy of obliviousness
there is no neutral observation. The world doesn’t tell us what is relevant. Instead, it responds to questions – The fallacy of obviousness by Teppo Felin Published by Aeon on: 5th...
8 July 2018
Geraldine DeRuiter
I thought my bully deserved an awful life. But then he had one. I never thought I could feel empathy for the boy who tormented me in childhood. By Geraldine DeRuiter...
24 February 2018
Consider Phlebas
This news, that Amazon Studios to Bring Iain M. Banks’s Culture to the Small Screen, could be interesting, I read a fair few Banks books in the past. Never got through...
22 February 2018
The non-binary brain
Misogynists are fascinated by the idea that human brains are biologically male or female. But they’ve got the science wrong Willingham, Emily, The non-binary brain. Aeon. – via metafilter
3 January 2018
Demanding Kinder Classrooms Doesn’t Make You a Snowflake
Students don’t need to get better at dealing with the real world—professors do – by Daniel Heath Justice via metafilter
25 August 2017
extract from Circe
Madeline Miller has posted a link to an extract of her new book Circe. I really loved her Song of Achilles so I’m looking forward to this.
17 August 2017
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