Arriving on the train in Euston Station, London from Manchester this is what you see. It’s about as emotionally uplifting as a visit to a sub-station. What were they thinking? Were they thinking ?

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends. -Samuel Johnson, born on this day in 1709. (Samuel Johnson's chambers, Inner Temple Lane, London)

Building the largest humanoid pretraining set

The Old English word for equinox is 'emniht', from 'efen' and 'niht', when night and day are evenly balanced. Today is the 'hærfestlice emniht', autumnal equinox; after this (says Byrhtferth of Ramsey) 'langað seo niht and wanað se dæg', 'the night lengthens and the day wanes'.

Fallingwater. Frank Lloyd Wright. 1937. Photo: Andrew Pielage.

the ford foundation is the single greatest office building in america.

More excellent music complementing first class television. 🙏🏻 Matthew Cracknell

It's the anniversary of the greatest diary entry in history. Michael Palin, November 13th 1977.

Randomly came across a Disney artist I hadn’t heard of, Frans Van Lamsweerde in one of those posts that casually mentions “My father was an artist at Disney.” And my follow up, “What was his name?” Followed by the unfamiliar name, followed by a Google search. And then, “Holy

Dances for Orchestra by Errollyn Wallen BBC Radio 3 Georgia Mann 👏🏼🙏🏻

Happy New Year 🌔 At the stroke of midnight, we begin a new year—the year we will fly around the Moon with humans. In as early as February, the Artemis II crew will travel approximately 685,000 miles (~1.1 million km) from Earth, venture around the Moon, and return home.

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We are the first human beings to see a Mars sunset. There is something so humbling about realizing the same sun we see every day looks completely different from another world. 🌌

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89. Thank you for the birthday wishes Photo: Rebecca Litman

It is 50 years today since the painter Lawrence Stephen Lowry passed away at the age of 88-He was born on 1st November 1887

"Coastal Path", 2017 Artist Annie Soudain (British , born 1949) Reduction Linocut, 38 × 41 cm.

Eight years ago, two rocket boosters fell from the sky and landed themselves simultaneously on the ground. The crowd didn’t cheer immediately. They gasped first. Because what they just watched wasn’t supposed to be possible. That moment was the culmination of years of

Neil Sedaka, the legendary singer-songwriter behind hits like “Breaking Up Is Hard to Do,” “Bad Blood,” “Laughter in the Rain” and “Calendar Girl,” has died at 86 years old. “Our family is devastated by the sudden passing of our beloved husband, father and grandfather, Neil