A waste-free Middle Eastern runner bean meze recipe 🔗 — Excerpt: At 14, I worked on a pig farm for £1.50 an hour. Although my main role was mucking out the pig pens, I’d also tend to the farmer’s crops of potatoes, pumpkins and runner beans. The quantity of beans, in particular, that we harvested each season seemed almost magical.

New Research Reveals Origin of Stonehenge Stones 🔗 — Excerpt: A new study has revealed the origins of Stonehenge’s sarsen stones, solving a mystery that has been speculated on for centuries.

Currently reading: The Periodic Table by Primo Levi 📚

Watched: Blindness, 2008 - ★★★★★ 🎥

🎵 My Top weekly artists: Algiers (65), Blake Mills (55), Mitropoulos, NYPO (54), Kikagaku Moyo (22) & Mitropoulos, International Society for Contemporary Music Concert Group (14) via tweekly.fm

Saturday night pizza 🍕

Basil and wine - in the midst of making pizza 🍕 🍷

The scramble for Edtech — just another data mining operation? 🔗 — Excerpt: …students aren’t really the customers, they are the product.

Published 5 photos on my Flickr account 📷 🏷️ venice, italy, ilford, xp2

Published 1 photo on my Flickr account 📷 🏷️ canoneos300d, flickrfriday, polished

Cardiacs' Tim Smith: a one-man subculture who inspired total devotion — Excerpt: Tim Smith, who has died aged 59, made a bizarre kind of rock music that was so wrong it was right. 🎵

Chris Frantz: Remain in Love 🔗 — Excerpt: David Byrne overwhelms the image of Talking Heads. With his herky-jerky mannerisms, loopy persona and arch lyrics – not to mention his command of the songwriting credits through much of their catalogue – he eclipsed the efforts of every other member of the band. 🎵📚

Watched: Annihilation, 2018 - ★★★★ 🎥

Watched: Looper, 2012 - ★★★ 🎥

Watched: Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles, 2018 - ★★★★ 🎥