December 2017

[muninnhuginn]

 Read:

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Shorts

- Attrib.: by Eley Williams (K)

- A christmas story. Be careful what you ask for, especially if you have dodgy handwriting by opusanglicanum (https://opusanglicanum.wordpress.com/2017/12/21/a-christmas-story/)

- You Should Come With Me Now: Stories of Ghosts by M. John Harrison (K)

- Bethany on Jura by William Boyd (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/dec/24/bethany-on-jura-original-short-story-by-william-boyd-george-orwell)

- The Do-Over by Jacob A. Boyd (DSF)

- Childished by jez patterson (DSF)

- Improbable Botany, ed. Gary Dalkin (K, kickstarted)

 

 

Fiction

- The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper (K)

 

Non-Fiction

- https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/dec/08/shaken-baby-syndrome-war-over-convictions

- http://www.history.com/news/the-delusion-that-made-nobles-think-their-bodies-were-made-of-glass

- Charlotte Wood: We’re told female anger is finding its moment. But I can’t trust it (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/dec/18/charlotte-wood-were-told-female-anger-is-finding-its-moment-but-i-cant-trust-it)

- The College Student Who Decoded the Data Hidden in Inca Knots by Katherine Davis-Young (https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/khipus-inca-empire-harvard-university-colonialism.amp)

- The King is Dead by Nancy Jane Moore (http://bookviewcafe.com/blog/2017/12/07/the-king-is-dead/?doing_wp_cron=1512737945.5262739658355712890625)

- Don’t Diss Dystopias by Ramez Naam (http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2014/09/neal_stephenson_hieroglyph_in_defense_of_dystopian_science_fiction.html)

- Seamus Heaney: The Christmas card maker by Freya McClements (https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/seamus-heaney-the-christmas-card-maker-1.3330340?mode=amp)

- THE DATA THAT THREATENED TO BREAK PHYSICS by Ransom Stephens  (http://nautil.us/issue/55/trust/the-data-that-threatened-to-break-physics-rp?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication)

- The Bitcoin Paradox BY SIMON DEDEO (http://nautil.us/issue/55/trust/the-bitcoin-paradox?utm_source=ticker&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=the-bitcoin-paradox)

- Does Survival of Cryptocurrency Technology Depend on Human Emotion? by Amanda B. Johnson (https://gigaom.com/2017/12/28/does-survival-of-cryptocurrency-technology-depend-on-human-emotion/)

- Charlie Stross: Bitcoin should die in a fire (https://boingboing.net/2013/12/19/charlie-stross-bitcoin-should.html)

- Designing for Blockchain (https://medium.com/emerson-stone/designing-for-blockchain-f0e8c25997bd)

- 'The difficulty is the point': teaching spoon-fed students how to really read by Tegan Bennett Daylight (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/dec/24/the-difficulty-is-the-point-teaching-spoon-fed-students-how-to-really-read)

Knit
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- Secret Santa hat for work
- Socks (boring, afterthough heels, bright colours)