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March 18, 2024
The End
None of the characters in this story is a real person, other than the pianist.
“I can’t believe you,” Cat said, reaching across the table in the cafe booth, pointing to something on her phone.
“What?” said Mike, face fallen.
“Don’t play dumb.”
She turned her phone to him. It was a page from his web site, titled The End. He scrolled through it with his finger.
“What?”
“You turned me into a character in one of your stupi...
March 17, 2024
“The Beauty of Diversity”, Albertina Mordern
An exhibition to show the breadth of the Albertina Museum’s contemporary collections, 10am-6pm, until August 18th 2024
Smooth Running (2005-2013), Claudia Märzendorfer
Dancing Figure, Sungi Mlengeya
Creature, Michel Nedjar. Made from cloth, sticks, straw, fibres, mud, animal blood. ■
February 28, 2024
Alcohol Review – issue 100, February 29th 2024
Alcohol understanding for all
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In this issue: Thailand moots graphic labels; Lithuania mulls tax rise; Nigeria suspends sachet ban; Risky drinkers not listening: “Dire consequences” expected; Cricket captain promotes alcohol free spirit
Thai label: A proposed graphic warning on alcohol will cover at least one-third of the container and include messages like “Alcoholic beverages...
February 21, 2024
The Tigger
Winnie the Pooh meats William Blake, with apologies to Blake and A. A. Milne
The Tigger
By Phil Cain
Tigger Tigger feeling light
Forever bouncing to great height
What immortal hand or eye
Would stop this primal bid to fly.
With what great lows and highs
Has put such shine in thy eyes?
Since the starting pistol was fired
Neither have thee paused nor tired.
What great seamstress applied her art
To the pounding of thy heart
And when this organ began to thump
What made thee get right up and ju...
February 15, 2024
Properly plussed
Where should there be + signs be in digits 123456789 to add to a total of 99? And where in 1234567 to add to a total of 100?
Reveal solutionThere are a lot of options, so we need to try to narrow them down. If we have plus signs between all numbers we get 1+2+3+4+5+6+7+9 = 45. To change the last digit of this sum from 5 to 9–as we need to get 99–there needs to be six less in the sum. We can do this by removing plus sign and promoting digits to the tens column. The two ways to get six fro...
January 29, 2024
Alcohol Review – issue 99, January 29th 2024
Alcohol understanding for all
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In this issue: Olympics strikes first global beer deal; Local alcohol levies mooted; Pope issues wine reminder; Smaller glasses cut drinking; US alcohol deaths state-by-state; and more
Olympic beer deal: The Olympics’ first ever global beer promotion deal drew sharp criticism from a range of UK health advocates, including the Association of Di...
Alcohol Review – issue 99, January 29th 2024
Alcohol understanding for all
*Subscribe *Books *Whatsapp *Twitter, LinkedIn *ARchive
In this issue: Olympics strikes first global beer deal; Local alcohol levies mooted; Pope issues wine reminder; Smaller glasses cut drinking; US alcohol deaths state-by-state; and more
Olympic beer deal: The Olympics’ first ever global beer promotion deal drew sharp criticism from a range of UK health advocates, including the Association of Di...
January 25, 2024
US alcohol-induced deaths post pandemic
Alcohol induced deaths in each US state, in descending order of the percentage increase since the pandemic based on provisional figure for 2022.
20192022*Change, %1Mississippi24044384.62Delaware10617464.23South Dakota19130760.74Alaska18528654.65South Carolina62095453.96Maine20831752.47Missouri60891149.88Indiana7911,15145.59Rhode Island13920245.310New Hampshire20329545.311Iowa40859144.912Tennessee9361,32841.913Minnesota8281,17141.414Il...January 24, 2024
Effing and blinding index
Things not looking great for the Conservatives. But is anyone measuring public confidence in creative swearing? https://t.co/2LYC8pT1Ma
— Phil Cain (@philcaincom) January 24, 2024
January 23, 2024
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