The Nunc Dimitis from Philip Stopford’s Truro Evening Canticles.
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The Adagio Espressivo from Beethoven’s Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 10 in G, Op. 96. Performed by Gidon Kremer (violin) and Martha Argerich (piano). From Deutsche Grammophon’s wonderful collection of Argerich, Kremer and Maisky’s Complete Duo Recordings.
The drought in Britain continues.
Swans in Worcester happy about this.
(photograph by David Jones, PA)
I used to love the the floods when growing up in Worcester. They brought a sense of our powerlessness under nature; and seasonality to the year. And then when they subsided, down to the Water Gate to see how it compared to the marks from previous years
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“Do you remember the line in the Psalm – “Thy word is a lantern unto my feet” – not any more light than is necessary to make the next step.”
— Educationalist George Lyward. Featured in this evening’s Great Lives on BBC Radio 4.
(Source: finchden.com)
Possibly the greatest photograph ever (L-R: Uncle, second cousin, uncle)
The history of reprogramming 3.0
Alexey Bersenev summarises the history of induced direct reprogramming (or transdifferentiation) by defined factors in vivo..
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Blue Stone Heart — Evening Chorus
Oh, child of delight! Oh, glorious hero!
Thou foolish lord of loftiest deeds!
Laughing must I love thee,
laughing welcome my blindness,
laughing let us be lost,
with laughter go down to death!
— Brünnhilde, Siegfried Act III.
Poster session 2032
“Paper‽”
It was good that the restaurant wasn’t quiet, so the postdoc’s interrobang didn’t distract the other tables nearby.
“That’s right. When we first went to Neuroscience, you had to print your poster on this big sheet of paper.”
Better Posters imagines the conference posters session of the future. “Easier, but not necessarily better” is a concluding line that rings true for so many “advances”.
