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The Bangalore Detectives Club
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The Bangalore Detectives Club – Harini Nagendra

This is Nagendra’s first mystery, set in Bangalore in 1921.  It is set in South India, not Bombay or Calcutta, which makes it unique in my experience.
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“In Byron’s Wake”, Miranda Seymour

This book focuses on Lady Byron (1792-1860), her daughter, Ada, Countess of Lovelace, and the ways they were affected by Lord Byron..
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The Neil Gaiman Podcast

Writing: Recent work related experiences have had the effect of denting my self-confidence somewhat, with the “imposter syndrome” that invariably...
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The Pioneering Life of Mary Wortley Montagu. Scientist and Feminist. Jo Willett

This biography of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762) was published this year. Nothing specific was said about the pandemic, but the obvious message is that it is time to more broadly understand her role in the adoption of inoculation as a medical technology.
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Bindi – An Indian Toy Story

I had a rough concept in mind - Bindi, a discarded folk art wooden doll who is superseded by more technologically advanced toys wants to go to "Bollywood" and find her fortune there.
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THE ENTRÉE

When I finished my PhD in 1979, my next career step was to do a postdoc. I wanted to go to the Huge Lab in Strasbourg, since it was the most high-profile lab in Europe at the time.
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Interrupted Midjourney…

2 weeks ago to the day I had been taking a deep dive into the world of "AI Art" thanks to "Midjourney", a subscription-based online AI (for "Artificial Intelligence") art generator that builds images from text prompts - an early result is the featured image of this post - having seen interesting results online, before my investigations were rudely interrupted by a bout of COVID...
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“The Hedgehog & The Fox”, Isaiah Berlin

Berlin compares Tolstoy with Maistre, a post-French Revolution, ultramontane Catholic, and extremely conservative thinker who thought Europe should return to the blind Catholicism and authoritarianism of the Dark Ages. He was a hedgehog.
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Winning My Wings

A community bound into a vast network by radio frequencies, transponder codes, tail numbers, voices, and tracks on Flight Aware. Because “In the air, nobody can see the color of your skin.
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Bar Bruno – A Tale of Horror…

I sat at the back where it was coolest and surrounded by the monochrome collage of pictures of Old Soho that papered the walls at the rear of the cafe, staring unblinkingly at the unending stream of traffic outside and people walking lazily past....
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Sculptor’s Daughter. Tove Jansson

I bought this book in 1978 and reread it after I finished my bio of Tove. Her father was a sculptor, Viktor Janssen, and her mother, “Ham”, an artist. It is a quick read-about 2 hours-and consists of short vignettes written from a child’s point of view.
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Indestructible TV…

The most remarkable thing about Anderson's episodic TV series, each running to between 25 and 30 minutes, is how you are drawn into the carefully crafted puppet worlds...
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