The best Japanese film of every year – from 1925 to now 🔗 — _Excerpt:_ It’s a foolish endeavour to try to determine the best film, year by year, of any filmmaking nation, let alone one with so extraordinary a cinematic history as Japan. 🎥
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Posted on May 14, 2020
Track 14 May 2020 at 14:45 – Walking Track – ViewRanger 🔗 – afternoon walk.
Posted on May 5, 2020
Covid-19 surveillance tech explained: 6 ways governments are monitoring the virus – and you 🔗 — _Excerpt:_ Governments across the world face the same dilemma: how to contain the spread of Covid-19 while at the same time re-opening their shuttered societies. The stakes are immense. Open up too early and the death toll could sky-rocket, putting health systems under enormous strain.
Posted on May 5, 2020
Brace yourself for the most dangerous idea yet: most people are pretty decent 🔗 — _Excerpt:_ Right now, more than ever, we need a hopeful view of human nature. While we’re right to keep our physical distance from those around us to stop the spread of the virus, we also need to believe that it’s these same people who will get us through it. We need to trust them.
Posted on April 24, 2020
ECB announces further delay to the professional cricket season. No professional cricket will be played in England and Wales until at least 1 July – ECB 🔗 🏏
Posted on April 20, 2020
Rachel Roddy's recipe for piadina flatbread 🔗 — _Excerpt:_ No 17 on my plan of things to do when things change: take the 7.25am train from Roma Termini to Ravenna, walk out of the station in search of the first place that will serve me a piadina romagnola, then eat the warm fold as I walk towards Piazza Del Popolo. Until then, I will make them at home.
Posted on April 16, 2020
Easy as 1,2,3: chefs on the 50 most simple, delicious three-ingredient recipes 🔗 — _Excerpt:_ Most easy recipes are not easy. Achieving simplicity is never actually that simple, but in the kitchen it is usually also contingent on a well-trained hand and a very well-stocked pantry. This makes the genuinely easy three-ingredient recipe a holy grail of sorts.
Posted on April 14, 2020
Radical Wordsworth by Jonathan Bate review – fleet-footed and inspiriting 🔗 — _Excerpt:_ In 1798, William Wordsworth arrived from Bristol at the cottage of his friend, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in Nether Stowey in Somerset.
Posted on April 12, 2020
Radiohead's Ed O'Brien: 'Humanity has only really learned from disaster' 🔗 — _Excerpt:_ Ed O’Brien believed Radiohead’s turbulent years were behind him. It was 2001 and the guitarist and “band mum” had tamed egos, anchored stressful tours and clung tight as his bandmates swerved into electronic music. Now, the five-piece had nothing to prove, and he had slipped underwater.
Posted on April 1, 2020
Dark Sky Blog 🔗 – Dark Sky has joined Apple.