You might imagine that a story that included the phrase… “My partner took me to the hospital that she works in because she wanted all her colleagues to laugh at me.” … would be mean or cruel, but as you follow Dr Daniel Reardon’s story it just gets funnier and funnier. Our hero takes what… Continue reading Magnetism
Month: March 2020
Nevada nuclear test sites
I’m not going to try to reproduce the images here – fitting them into this layout would require losing much of the detail that makes them so striking – but you should definitely go and see some photographs of Nevada’s nuclear test sites in a New York Review of Books review of a collection of… Continue reading Nevada nuclear test sites
Don’t Panic
To mark the 42nd anniversary of the radio broadcast of the first instalment of Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, BBC Radio 4 Extra are devoting a sizeable chunk of their evening schedule to programmes about the series, interspersed with the first six episodes of the story itself. I can’t help but notice… Continue reading Don’t Panic
Tales from the Loop
The teaser trailer for Amazon’s forthcoming TV adaptation of artist Simon Stålenhag’s vision of a future where the presence of a large underground particle accelerator coincided with the arrival on the scene of an array of strange machines, Tales From the Loop, already had me hooked even before I recognised the presence of Jonathan Pryce… Continue reading Tales from the Loop