Karl Whitney
@karlwhitney.ie
Writer // Books: HIDDEN CITY (Penguin) and HIT FACTORIES (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) // http://www.karlwhitney.ie
[Brian Glover knocking a Kes out of the kid's hand] 'We're not into that round here son, it's call centres!' www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Burnham to tell schools in England to adapt teaching to local business needs
PM wants curriculums for students aged 14 and above to be more responsive to local jobs market
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Up there with the weird hailstorm deciding the title a few years ago.
They're calling it the chairpants of temperature regulation.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2w agoThis new wearable cooling device slips subtly under the back of your shirt, providing fast, powerful, direct climate control to the base of your neck. It launched in Korea and Japan back in 2019 and has finally made its way to the United States. nyti.ms/4wyxQPX
I wrote about wildfire smoke and AI photos for the Science and Magic newsletter: www.violetterecords.com/science-and-...
Science & Magic | 29 — Violette Records
Barry, that's not what a swan does.
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I wrote about wildfire smoke and AI photos for the Science and Magic newsletter: www.violetterecords.com/science-and-...
Science & Magic | 29 — Violette Records
Barry, that's not what a swan does.
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Smoke from the east and the west. Pretty pictures though?!?!?! www.violetterecords.com/science-and-...
Science & Magic | 29 — Violette Records
Barry, that's not what a swan does.
violetterecords.com
ex-pros with barely an idea in their heads have convinced me that it was the manager's fault
While public tastes are moving away from tighter regulation and audit culture in the information sphere, higher education moves inexorably towards it substack.com/home/post/p-...
The Rest is Academic Research
What happens when Gary Lineker comes for the universities?
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[me in full US Sportsguy hype mode when de Ketelaere scores for Belgium] Yooooouve been kettled!
I wrote about The Jam's Greatest Hits and how bands are like pets: they live shorter lives than we do. www.violetterecords.com/science-and-...
Science & Magic | 28 — Violette Records
Irretrievably lost in the beautiful territory between logic and enchantment.
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“I have incredible admiration for Croatia and I admire their sporting nature”, Martínez said after the match. “But the balls now have a chip in them"
I wrote about The Jam's Greatest Hits and how bands are like pets: they live shorter lives than we do. www.violetterecords.com/science-and-...
Science & Magic | 28 — Violette Records
Irretrievably lost in the beautiful territory between logic and enchantment.
violetterecords.com
In 1998, I moderated a conversation between Mel Brooks and Joseph Heller. They talked for three hours. Ostensibly, the subject was Heller's memoir, Now and Then. But really, it was the Mel and Joe show. Here's the piece that came out of their conversation. www.latimes.com/archives/la-...
Banterweight Champs
Verbal Sparring Partners Mel Brooks, left, and Joseph Heller Engage in a Repartee That Covers Personal Struggles, 'Catch-22,' War Stories and the Novelist's Latest Book, 'Now and Then'
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I wrote about Dionys Mascolo's journals for the TLS: www.the-tls.com/politics-by-...
The journals of a revolutionary thinker who confronted nihilism
For a long time, Dionys Mascolo (1916–97) was known mainly as a secondary figure in relation to the more famous writers and intellectuals around him. He
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