Nicholas Whyte 白怀珂
@nwhyte
He/him. International affairs strategist & expert, science fiction fan, psephologist; posts personal. Will block rude people and bigots.
Case in point: lousy night last night, 3h38min, and managed to come in above average on all eight games. If I actually get a decent night, my sense is that I don’t do as well.
Maybe it is just my imagination, but I find a weird correlation between my success at LinkedIn daily games and my *lack* of sleep the previous night.
A good omen, perhaps, which above average scores on most of the LinkedIn games...
Regarding the 1965 Doctor Who story The Web Planet, and its novelisation Doctor Who and the Zarbi: is it known definitively whether or not the John Wood who was the designer for the TV series is the same person as the John Wood who illustrated the novel?
2026 books 175: The Lost Family: How DNA Testing Is Upending Who We Are, by Libby Copeland
2026 books 173: Lessons from Kosovo: The KFOR Experience, ed. Larry Wentz
A couple that I forgot: 2026 books 171: Ancillary Justice, by Ann Leckie 2026 books 172: Among Ghosts, by Rachel Hartman
2026 books 170: Ces Lignes Qui Tracent Mon Corps, by Mansoureh Kamari
In the dystopian world of Octavia E. Butler’s “Parable of the Sower”, Lauren’s brother Keith is growing away from their family.
Belgian lunchtime delicacy: Tinned peaches with a tuna fish topping. Yum.