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A week ago I was here, at the tail end of two days of cycling in the Highlands with my son before he headed back to uni.

Last week saw Edinburgh’s last significant eclipse until 2093, with 90.6% of the sun obscured, but unlike 90.6% of the population I failed to make my way to a decent hill to watch it.

A few days after I posted here about Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, The Atlantic published another article by translator Emily Wilson, this time discussing Nolan’s version of the Trojan Horse.

The neighbours who turned a dream home into a nightmare.

The death of Sam Neill a few weeks ago drew a surprisingly strong reaction online.

New England’s investment in solar has paid off in electricity savings during this summer’s heat waves.

Most of the attention around AI in recent weeks has been on the nervous stock market and on hacks carried out by poorly controlled tools.

“This is where democracy beats totalitarianism”: Ukraine’s drone strike force takes the fight to Russia.

When the trailer appeared months ago for Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, I was underwhelmed, although certainly not for the same reasons as the world’s richest Roman saluter; its glimpses of Matt Damon and his crew wandering around an island just didn’t…

The other day I noticed that the Russian series Better Than Us would soon be dropping off Netflix, and feeling in the mood for some near-future SF about a world of personal robots, I gave it a try; as a 2018 production, I figured it might not be too infec…