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A Very Short History of Prosecco (opens the original)
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It’s a bit… Prosecco-ey…Tom GilbeyProsecco almost hides in plain sight. It graces private views of art gallery shows (both public and private), it graces academic conferences, birthday parties, wedding receptions, leaving drinks. Prosecco is, more than any other fermented grape juice, an institutional wine. It is the NHS blue of plonk, the polypropylene chair of booze, the business-casual of alcohol. Nowadays, prosecco is such a big product that its cultivation is causing dangerou
Stop Doing References (opens the original)
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The other day, the subject of job references came up among my colleagues. One of my colleagues, Jennifer Griffiths, put the problem with references in brutal but clear terms that have been ringing in my head ever since:“They’re asking you to burn your social capital”<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wepe!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd78edb4c-9caa-4b48-af12-8
Interview with Alfie Robinson, Astrophysicist (opens the original)
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The internet takes us to unexpected places, and acquaints us with unexpected people. A few years ago, I had the pleasure of meeting Neil Scott through Substack and a mutual friend, and we had a walk through Glasgow, and made it a little collaborative project on urbanism: specifically, an article and a film (the latter was all Neil’s work). It was delightful, what one imagines the internet of yore was like. A few months ago, I was, shameful
L’Aquila: Profile of a City (opens the original)
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The first things you learn about L’Aquila is that it’s in the middle of mountains in the middle of Italy, and that it suffered a horrendous earthquake in 2009. L’Aquila is the capital of Abruzzo, one of Italy’s less-visited regions (though it’s not quite Le Marche). The city has a population of 70,000, which is rather modest, but it’s still the second most populated city in Abruzzo. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xzYY!,f_auto,q_auto:goo
The Odyssey, by Christopher Nolan (2026) (opens the original)
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[Spoilers, obviously: even if you’re very familiar with the original narrative there are a bunch of choices in the film which will be watered down by what I’m going to say, if you care about that kind of thing.]<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="
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