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I think my nana was too young to work for most of the war but she was a nurse by the end of it; my granny was the sort of chemist who injected urine into frogs for pregnancy tests (!). My German grandfather was a paratrooper and my British/Irish grandfather, uh, bombed Dresden (and took the photos).

I was trying to remember the dates but I don't think my grampa was even *born* 100 years ago

women! have! always! worked!

(my grandparents were working by the late 1940s and 1950s and they were a nurse, a chemist-slash-tapestry restorer, a builder of racing cars, and a strike-breaker for British steel)

I assume everyone has their own scale, and their own tools to measure that scale, and this is mine

all are currently in a solid state, thank god, but the dark chocolate is almost inedible as the heat has essentially tempered it

This is veerrry well established in UK university restructures!

Also where I am putting the remaining 18 kidneys in this scenario

Yep! The Second World War had similarly huge effects on people and society and culture, and similarly even historians rarely point out “and of course X event was only 10 years after the trauma of war for the British people”.

OXO good grips! Which I didn’t realise are all inspired by the original designer’s wife, who had arthritis. But it’s very solid and also easy to use.

It’s been a long time since I worked in sales in any capacity but I did once get someone to buy quite a lot of advertising by having a detailed discussion about the history of Ironbridge.

No, the discourse has been about saying that anyone who says you should flip for it because the average income that way is £500k is an elitist who doesn’t understand the concept of poverty. But that’s arguably the type of risk aversion that is pernicious for people on low incomes!

I mean I guess unless the client also polls on, would you rather fight one horse-sized duck or a hundred duck-sized horses and actually they just want to poll a series of slightly tedious pub debates

Ye-es, but I suppose good financial education would work at teaching people see the maths at the heart of it without the framing? Obviously framing is everything — I’m a humanities scholar! — but the point of this question is to try to see whether people understand the maths, right?

We got new knives, a new can opener and a new grater recently and my god it’s transformative????

Inter! Library! Loans!

For me the best thing about open access is ebook versions of edited collections, but that’s because I love writing essays in edited collections and otherwise it’s easy for people to just… never ever read them. Whereas this way I can FORCE THEM ONTO PEOPLE and they have no excuse.

I also would argue that open access publishing is close to useless when it comes to public dissemination. It’s very useful for non-academic stakeholders outside the university if their think tank (or whatever) doesn’t pay for jstor. But they could just… email academics and ask for the article tbh.

to be clear: it’s obviously great to be published open access because it means my colleagues who don’t have institutional subscriptions to journals (or book budgets) can just download for free. but we could enable that without paying publishers literally millions of pounds!!!

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