This is the kind of classic old detective novel that you read with a notebook, trying to figure out the inconsistencies in the train schedules. It's also very short, a great summer read.
'O facto de, em Portugal, ser imprudente marcar férias para o período de férias é novo incentivo à reflexão. O que são as férias? O que é a prudência?' expresso.pt/opiniao/2026...
If all else fails, sometimes the old ways are the best. In which a Brown professors brings back pen & paper exams: "What followed was an unprecedented collapse in grades that has sparked a major debate over academic integrity in the age of ChatGPT." www.ibtimes.co.uk/brown-univer...
Thanks to everyone on this thread who suggested The Testaments. I am, to coin a phrase, loving' it.
That's a bingo! Q - What is the most common mistake (postdoc fellowship) applicants make? A- Underestimating the amount of preparation required. www.embl.org/about/info/e...
When I first read this 30 years ago, it was clearly SciFi. Re-reading it now, it feels like a different genre. (also, it holds up: Atwood is a great writer)
*chef's kiss* for MIng the Merciless. Honorable mention for Max von Sydow villains
If you're in Lisbon, Nimas is having its own Lubistch festival medeiafilmes.com/ciclos/ciclo...
'Are we talking about a vocal but unrepresentative minority? No. A recent Pew survey found that American adults believe by a wide margin that AI will be negative for society' @pkrugman.bsky.social paulkrugman.substack.com/p/why-does-e...
In which Roman Polanski thinks it's a good idea to send his AD to get Nicholson out of his trailer, when the Lakers are in *double overtime* against the Celtics (from Sam Wasson's The Big Goodbye: Chinatown & the Last Years of Hollywood)
O Nimas esta 🔥 'Julho é mês de François Truffaut, um extremista discreto Amigos íntimos de François Truffaut (1932-1984)' Alem do Truffaut, esta agora um ciclo do Lumet (ontem levei o miudo para ver Dog Day Afternoon), cinema Brasileiro, Lubitsch www.publico.pt/2026/06/28/c...
'Onde estávamos no 1.º de Maio de 1976? (...) Quem frequentou a Mostra Internacional de Cinema de Intervenção sobre colonialismo e racismo, África descolonizada e América Latina, fascismo e repressão, o cinema a correr num fluxo de solidariedade intercontinental?' www.publico.pt/2026/06/23/c...
Sidonia is a tough act to follow, but some of the crowd stayed & hung on to the end of my talk, "Everything failed until it didn't (a brief history of cancer #immunotherapy).
David Bowie trying out word combos (pic from the V&A's east London warehouse collection of his writings, artefacts etc)
Robert Towne vs Robert Evans (from Sam Wasson's gripping "The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood").
Feels like we should set this to a beat Dont call it a resubmission, been funded for years...