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My friend Turi King is perhaps best known for the DNA analysis identifying Richard III's remains when they were found in that Leicester car park.

Not having watched any live TV for... well, not since the last millennium, probably... we are often a bit slow to catch up on the really good TV series.

I appreciate that the proportion of my readership who possess an ePropulsion electric outboard motor maybe rather small, and that my latest YouTube video may therefore have rather, shall we say, niche appeal.

Spotted at our local Waitrose.

Having entered the frothing, bubbling water of AI very gingerly in the early days, I'm now plunging in on a rather frequent basis!

There are many of you, gentle readers, who are kind enough to allow Status-Q posts to be sent directly to your email inboxes.

Well, I didn't get to see the eclipse this evening because dinner was on the table and there was a big tree in the way, but I gather it was much like previous eclipses, of which I've seen a few.

We've probably all seen the recent news about one AI company accidentally hacking into another AI company, but this is a lovely new, rather more down-to-earth, story from ABC News: "Andrew asked his personal assistant to book him a spot in one of his gym's

This is a lovely site from the National Library of Scotland.

"Democracy", Winston Churchill famously said, "is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."

Here's an unsolicited recommendation of a Mac utility... but first, a quick explanation of why I need it.

Hannah Fry is one of those annoyingly accomplished people that make you realise how little you've achieved in life; for more details, see her Wikipedia page.

"He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me." ― Thomas Jefferson, Selected Writings

If you're not a technically-inclined user of the Apple Photos app, you may want to skip this one!

I have friends who run marathons.