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PSA TO NEW WHO FANS:

Spare Parts, one of the best Doctor Who stories in any medium in the past 50 years, top-rated audio that’s been released on limited edition vinyl (above right), is FREE TO LISTEN TO ON SPOTIFY. Learn why the Mondasian Cybermen are so flipping scary and why Peter Capaldi was so eager to have them back before he goes. (You have to create a login name and password to use Spotify, but that’s all.)

LISTEN To Spare Parts HERE. Bonus for old SF fans: Sally Knyvette, Jenna on Blake’s 7, has a heck of a guest star role.

ladyyatexel

@tinsnip, this is the audio I was talking about dolls you were here that was genuinely actually horrifying! It’s so damn good.

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Imagine being a teenager and taking a cross-country road trip to the University of Pennsylvania’s Moore School, where your job was to reset one of the world’s first general-purpose computers—ENIAC. This was a reality for Laura Lehmer Gould and her brother Donald Lehmer. The children of Derrick Henry Lehmer and Emma Trotskaya Lehmer, well-known number theorists at UC Berkeley who had been invited to use ENIAC for mathematical research, Laura and Donald remember their teenage years with ENIAC in this latest @CHM blog post by John Markoff.

Read “Unprogramming” the ENIAC: Lehmer Child’s Play” on @CHM or Medium

jillraggett
jillraggett

Plant of the Day
Thursday 22 June 2017

This half hardy annual plant was new to me and I discovered it growing at Cambridge Botanic Garden, UK. Cladanthus arabicus ‘Criss-Cross’ (Palm Spring’s daisy, golden crown) has a curious growth habit. A mound of pleasantly scented, feathery foliage is formed, bearing all summer long a profusion of large, fragrant, golden-yellow flowers. From around each of the first flowers (appearing in as little as six weeks from seed) appear four or five new stems each bearing a new flower and so growth continues… until the frost arrives.

Jill Raggett