London mountain biker. Host of Subject to Change podcast at https://xitter.gq/t.co/ldfxbN6NqN
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"Open the refrigerator doors, HAL."
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The supermarket chain thaw massacre
Cyberattack on fridges hits supermarkets across Europe reut.rs/3X1A0dF
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‘Superb… you will be utterly gripped.’
A fabulous review of Empire At The Edge of the World by the great @matthewparker70
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This week on the blog! We're finishing our Hearts of Iron IV series, focused on strategic ends and the place of modding in the game.
In the end, I think there is a bitter irony that Paradox's least historically responsible game is their most successful.
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Another dinner, another @Hogster podcast to entertain me. The Barbary corsairs and white slavery in Morocco (eeek!) described by @GilesMilton1.
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My engineering history taking a brief look at some Greek mathematics.
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Consummatum est! Ten years in the planning and after over twenty years of reading and at least one year of writing, Galileo - History and Myth is complete.
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You can watch my talk on the People's Emperor and Napoleon III at the fabulous Cliveden Literary Festival here: youtube.com/watch?v=mwfRwvsX…
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Renaissance Metallurgist, Vannoccio Biringuccio, was born 20 October 1480 #histsci #histtech
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New translation now posted and read aloud in Greek and English on my Substack:
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My dinner this evening was spent in the company of @Hogster and his guest @DavidGrann in this riveting podcast, hearing of disaster and endurance in the South Seas in the 18th century.
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This week on the blog - more on Hearts of Iron IV and this week's is a heavy one, assessing how the decision not to acknowledge or address war crimes and crimes against humanity causes the game to blunder into being a 'clean Wehrmacht' myth simulator.
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Christen Sørensen, better known as Longomontanus, Tycho Brahe's longest serving and leading observatory assistant, was born 4 October 1562 #histsci
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Michael Servetus, the first European to discover pulmonary blood circulation and who was condemned and executed by the Calvinist for blasphemy, was born 29 September 1511 #histsci #histmed
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For those who haven't seen it (and there can't be many now) this 20-minute video from 2017 explains some of the evidence used to rediscover the sounds of ancient Greek music.
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NB It's not the last word on the subject!
Just a reminder. We can’t “reconstruct” ancient Greek music where it’s lost. But from the substantial sources of evidence, including notated scores, we can form a good idea of the sounds and forms of ancient melody, especially in relation to words and texts.
So it’s perfectly reasonable to create musical structures that might be claimed as the *kind of thing* ancient Greeks would have recognised as idiomatic expressions of their own music, even if those particular structures were never actually heard in ancient Greece.
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What a lovely publication day review!!! @spectator
‘A compelling combination of betrayal, catastrophe, madness, mutiny, murder and revenge… In short punchy chapters Milton plunges the reader into this land of ice, isolation and darkness’
@MarkPiesing
