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I went to The Film Council with a two page outline of what it might be. Based on that they gave us the money to cast it and then with the ...

Watching Narcos on Netflix.  Weirdly, Pablo Escobar addresses his brother as usted, while his brother addresses Pablo as tu.  Can this possi...

Most of my time, these days, is taken up with dealing with the * it would be professional suicide to report.  Not so sure discretion is th...

Tom Shippey has a piece in the LRB on Njal's Saga ( here ).  It's a wonderful piece, but there are priceless lines strangely reminis...

For reasons too complicated to explain, I ended up watching Gossip Girl hot on the heels of South Park. Have just reached the point in GG wh...

Tim Harford on the use of Amazon's Mechanical Turk to quantify level of annoyance of pop-up ads Usually researchers want to avoid peop...

Studying the full array of symbols (see the definitive one-page copyright-free chart   here ) reveals that for almost any point in the mou...