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matthilliard.wordpress.com
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| | | | | To say I've arrived late to the George R R Martin party would be an understatement. At their height, I think it's fair to say these books were as popular as it's possible to be without crossing out of the genre audience like Harry Potter or (eventually) Ender's Game did. Fourteen years after the first... | |
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writerbeware.blog
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| | | | | This week I've got another great guest post for you, from marketing expert Chris Syme. We writers have all heard that we "have" to be on social media, which is presented to us-both by experts and the not-so-expert-as the Holy Grail of marketing and self-promotion. But apart from the thorny questions of which platforms toRead More | |
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www.schneier.com
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| | | | | New research (paywalled): Editor's summary: Cephalopods are one of the most successful marine invertebrates in modern oceans, and they have a 500-million-year-old history. However, we know very little about their evolution because soft-bodied animals rarely fossilize. Ikegami et al. developed an approach to reveal squid fossils, focusing on their beaks, the sole hard component of their bodies. They found that squids radiated rapidly after shedding their shells, reaching high levels of diversity by 100 million years ago. This finding shows both that squid body forms led to early success and that their radiation was not due to the end-Cretaceous extinction event... | |
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timharford.com
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| | | https://omny.fm/shows/cautionary-tales-with-tim-harford/on-fire-from-the-inside-lethal-injection-up-close-with-malcolm-gladwell Last week, Cautionary Tales told the tragic story of Derek Bentley, exploringBritain's troubled relationship withcapitalpunishment. Across the Atlantic, Revisionist History has also been scrutinising what it means for a state to try to execute a person. For this bonus episode, Malcolm Gladwell joins Tim Harford to discuss his new series The Alabama Murders, and... | ||
