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  • The Four Stages of Peanuts. #alchemy #brittlebaker

  • mediumaevum: THIS is the type of thing that gets me excited about history AND technology working together. A few lines of music written down 1,100 years ago, spotted by chance by a postgraduate student in a manuscript in the British Library, have proved to be the earliest example of polyphonic choral…

  • guardian: Santa’s real workshop: thousands of miles from the North Pole, in the Chinese city of Yiwu, 600 factories churn out over 60% of all the world’s Christmas decorations.  And it turns out the workers aren’t entirely sure what Christmas is » Photo: Imaginechina/Rex Oh, the sad irony.

  • End of Christendom recognized in 1945

    In a conversation with Merlin, Mr Ransom explains the current political climate. In it, it seems Lewis recognized that the end of Christendom had already ocured. This Saxon king of yours who sits at Windsor, now. Is there no help in him?” “He has no power in this matter.” “Then…

  • “Unfortunately, the supernatural keeps breaking in…”

    Unfortunately, the supernatural keeps breaking in, and it does so in rather confusing, undisciplined ways. George Orwell on That Hideous Strength here.