“Who are the chairbound to belittle men of hardihood, however driven, foolish, incompetent and even without scruple some may be? What is this awful need we have to pull the brave ones down into the mob by exposing their human frailties and mistakes? Are we so incapable of peace within ourselves that we find the eminence of bolder men unbearable?”
—Peter Matthiessen, Ends of the Earth
(Posted while sitting in my chair, yet unbound 😀)
In 2021, actor Richard E. Grant lost his wife, dialect coach Joan Washington, to lung cancer. Here, he talks about loss, sorrow, love and life's pleasures — subjects that are covered in his award-winning memoir, "A Pocketful of Happiness."
The ‘Withnail and I’ star has spoken candidly on Instagram about the pain of becoming a widower, and in his moving memoir ‘A Pocketful of Happiness’. He sits down with Laura Barton while touring his one-man show, ‘An Evening with Richard E Grant’
Amazing! A brain–spine interface allows paralyzed man to walk using his thoughts.
Nature reports on the work of Grégoire Courtine, a neuroscientist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.
Climate Scientists Leave Twitter For Mastodon
So, it is possible for a group to make the collective decision to leave Twitter. Scientists "suffering insults and mass-spam are abandoning Twitter," and setting up shop on Mastodon.
Climate scientists flee Twitter as hostility surges >>> https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20230524-climate-scientists-flee-twitter-as-hostility-surges
"Glaciologist @Ruth_Mottram had more than 10,000 followers on Twitter but left in February and joined an alternative scientists' forum powered by Mastodon."
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Today, May 16, 2179, Ellen Ripley and Jonesy the cat are found in hypersleep after drifting in space for 57 years (Aliens, 1986)
Today, May 12, 1984, at 1:52 am, a T-800 Terminator arrives from 2029 to try to kill Sarah Connor (The Terminator, 1984)
If you're in Britain and have never seen #HaltAndCatchFire, it's now been added to #Channel4 so now's your chance to see THE BEST TV PROGRAMME EVER MADE!
https://www.channel4.com/programmes/halt-and-catch-fire
#HACF #LeePace #MackenzieDavis #KerryBishé #ScootMcNairy #RetroComputing #ComputerHistory #HistoryOfComputing
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