a writer's notebook
YouTube, typically known as the go-to platform for video content, has risen to the top as the most popular service used for podcast listening in the U.S. … 31% of weekly podcast listeners age 13 and up choose YouTube as the service they use most to listen to podcasts, surpassing Spotify (27%) and Apple Podcasts (15%).
December 03, 2024 at 03:23PM
Comments closedComments closedIn ancient conflicts, courage and resilience were essential qualities for warriors venturing onto the battlefield. However, a recent study has uncovered evidence suggesting that these attributes did not always rely solely on physical strength or emotional fortitude. Recent research published in the journal Praehistorische Zeitschrift suggests that Northern European barbarian warriors during the Roman period may have used stimulants to enhance their performance in combat.
At various archaeological sites in Scandinavia, Germany, and Poland, researchers have discovered small spoon-shaped objects attached to belts, dating back to the Roman period. These objects, featuring handles between 40 and 70 mm in length and cavities just 10 to 20 mm in diameter, lacked any practical purpose for the belt but were found alongside other war-related artifacts.
According to the study led by archaeologist Andrzej Kokowski and a team of biologists from Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, Poland, these small spoons might have been used to measure precise doses of stimulant substances before battle.
How to import Kindle highlights into Readavocado – Readavocado blog
Reminder to actually do this next week! I do not have the space to learn how to build and use a wiki, but I need better access to my Kindle highlights now.
November 24, 2024 at 04:45PM
Comments closedIt’s not just that Mezrich has capitalized on Hollywood’s insatiable appetite for IP — he has perfected the art of selling his stories for the screen. Normally, a writer publishes a book or article, then tries to get Hollywood interested in adapting it. Mezrich does it the other way around. “I write a ten-to-14-page book proposal, we take it out to Hollywood, and I sell the movie rights,” he says. “Then I go to the publishing houses with these ten pages and I sell the book. Then I write the book in three months while the screenwriter is already working on the screenplay.” If Hollywood doesn’t bite? He just won’t write the book, shelving the idea and coming up with another one.Comments closed
Most novels have about 60 scenes and three acts (like a screenplay). So, feel free to use this method to outline a screenplay as wellThe acts are a “series of sequences that culminate in a major turning point in a character’s life.” I wrote that down because Bernhardt said it twice.
- Acts I and III have about 15 scenes each.
- Act II is the longest, at 30 scenes.
- Some novels have more scenes, some fewer. Some even have four acts.
Not convinced I agree with that at all, but a tool can only be judged by whether it gets you where you want to go or not, and maybe this will be useful. According to Dilloway, a novel is sixty scenes. It’s interesting.
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One of the brightest and densest meteor showers of the year, the Perseids pour down every August, leaving glowing streaks in their wake. Photographer Josh Dury captured this year’s stellar spectacle near Stonehenge, showing the fireballs illuminating the sky above the prehistoric grounds in Wiltshire, England.
On August 9, Dury camped out at the ancient monument—which aligns the sunrise on the summer solstice and the sunset on the winter solstice—to capture 46 images he later stitched together into the stunning composite above. Between 50 and 100 meteors are typically visible per hour when the Perseids arrive, and the photographer spent about three hours on location.
Not going to see a better picture today.
Comments closedLinton Kwesi Johnson From Mento to Lovers Rock episode 01
Can’t believe this is out there. I listened to this series on the radio in the early 1980s.
November 09, 2024 at 10:25PM
Comments closedI may have actually found the real stealth-wealth notebook.
ROTERFADEN. Handmade, a couple of hundred quid a pop. My partner, who is of German extraction, would consider this to be the engineering “of my people, therefore done properly.” Peculiarly, it seems you can’t get lined paper fills for the B6 size. Fascinating to look through the site, though.
Just had to buy a new Moleskine to make sure I get through to the end of the year. Looking at Passport size Traveler’s Company notebooks – just a little smaller than Moleskines or Field Notes – and wondering if I could get on with them. I feel the need to simplify. Am currently putting new gel refills in my old “good” pens – I have a set with little perspex domes on top containing tiny meteorite fragments.
Comments closedMany of us think that we inhabit a linear, coherent, anthropocentric world. Agnieszka Kurant rejects this simplistic belief. Today’s world is increasingly being shaped by a multitude of intelligent agents: some are human, but most are not. They are animals, of course, but also microorganisms, viruses, minerals and algorithms. They do not exist in silos. They hybridise, they waver between the biological, the mineral and the digital, the natural and the artificial, the living and the non-living.
For the first time, state-of-the-art biomechanics technology has allowed us to scientifically measure just how deadly are two iconic Aboriginal weapons.
googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-1449240174198-2’); });In First Weapons, an ABC TV series aired last year, host Phil Breslin tested out a range of Indigenous Australian weapons. Among these were two striking weapons—the paired leangle and parrying shield, and the kodj.
