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Robert Proctor
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Architectural historian of the twentieth century.

Robert Neel Proctor is an American historian of science and Professor of the History of Science at Stanford University, where he is also Professor by courtesy of Pulmonary Medicine. While a professor of the history of science at Pennsylvania State University in 1999, he became the first historian to testify against the tobacco industry. .. more

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There was some debate recently in Bristol about changing the name of Blackboy Hill, but the council couldn't do anything because it's not a street name. It's called that simply because everyone calls it that.

Any advice on dealing with shooting RSI pains up your arm when you're less than halfway through marking, anyone?

Yes, I don't get this, faithful strategy should be to get rid of any strong players to reduce competition at the end, traitor or faithful is irrelevant until about 2/3 in.

To that old list of AI-influenced words to ban (stands, boasts, nestles, etc.), I would now like to add "pivotal", if that's ok with you.

I think that's pretty much what the minister did, not that anyone noticed.

I've had a mid career, when's the good one?

Compulsory AI blether on everything on Proquest now, is it? How about we takeaway Clarivate?

That's what I do in staff workshops. Maybe ask them to write it down/post it on a board/type it into a forum instead?

I'd love to read a student essay that tried to argue that Fallingwater absolutely trashed its site. It is a reasonable argument you could make, in contrast to all the fluff.

Where's Raymond Williams when you need him?

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With an American accent, like those cheesy documentaries.

Well exactly. I guess with buildings you can experiment on the model with environmental retrofit etc., but the amount of work involved in a full model vs calculations and common sense seems ridiculous.

People have been talking to me about "digital twins" and my question is always "why though".

Always bemused by the building digitisation conservation folk myself. Seems like easy money for ever expanding technical work, neither research nor conservation.

Tbf I never understood it myself no matter how many times I tried reading Wigley.

Deconstructivism.
Without revealing your actual age,what's something you remember that if you told a younger person they wouldn't understand?
Without revealing your actual age,what's something you remember that if you told a younger person they wouldn't understand?

Depends on the referencing system. Some do, some don't.

Braved the chill and went to Tyntesfield House, Somerset, the other day. Chapel by Arthur Blomfield, 1870s. Garden by the NT rulebook.

But where is the workload allocation for checking and complaining about the workload allocation?

These YouTube channels are a good complement to it to improve comprehension though. youtube.com/@easyitalian...
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I did the entire Spanish course on Duolingo and while it's nice to be able to understand it, I still have absolutely no ability to speak it. Makes a good starting point, potentially, no more than that.

No substitute for evening classes, really.

Honestly prefer my stapler not to have anything remotely resembling consciousness.

My suggestions might include equally good teaching at all universities, and abolishing all league tables.

5 and 11 are in conflict; what's the utopian solution for demand exceeding capacity?

'27 November was your most productive writing day with 8,000 words' (marking essays)