My Inaugural Professorial Lecture at @glasgow.ac.uk has been announced: “A kind of elvish craft”: In conversation with Prof. Tolkien Myth, folklore, fairy-story, fantasy + the traditions behind the stories we tell. 9 Nov, 5pm. Book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/critical-s... @uofgartshums.bsky.social

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And Eddison means it. The whole ending hangs on that idea: Juss and his brothers win, then miss their enemies so badly they ask the gods to give them the war back. Strangest happy ending I know.

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HEDY LAMARR in the huge box office hit ZIEGFELD GIRL (1941) Hedy escaped her Nazi husband by disguising herself as her own maid, and co-developed a radio guidance system for Allied torpedoes - the principles of which are incorporated into today's Bluetooth & GPS technology.

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My dear friend Bethany would have been forty-one this week. In October 2012 she took her own life. I wrote an essay reflecting on the horrors we both suffered in a doomsday cult, and the classic novel that might, possibly, have saved her. bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/the-classi...

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The U.S. Army is seeking new electronic warfare technology to destroy enemy command hubs while protecting American troops from similar attacks in Europe — and offering up big prizes for it. From Stars and Stripes' John Vandiver:

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