Jacques Cartier Bridge, Montreal.

Paul Klee, Theme Circulating Through 6 Planes. 1931.

Stained glass window made from sliced agate by Sigmar Polke

Waymo is so safe that if every car was driven like a Waymo, about 9% of America's life expectancy gap would disappear. 9 percent Americans die in car accidents *that often*.

Still one of the most insane lines I've read in any ML paper.

All is revealed! The confessional was a prop brought in for the filming of the 2008 film 'Stone of Destiny' starring Robert Carlyle and Charlie Cox, in which the Abbey was dressed as a Catholic church in the 1950s. They were a bit tardy in taking it away, so the Abbey started

I randomly came across this book in college and was totally mesmerized by it. First time I had seen a serious attempt to apply math to biology in an explanatory way, not just descriptively. Pretty ahead of its time for 1917. The illustrations alone are worth browsing through.

If I were Clarks’ marketing department I would have LEAPT on the Dark Academia trend 200 year old British brand where we all got our school shoes? Go on, get those patent brogues and penny loafers to some influencers

'The Harbour in Trieste' (1907) by Egon Schiele

What a life. Ran 100m in 10.2 seconds when world record was about 10.06.

blast from the past

These pieces very much focus on the personal experience. This misses out the price paid and love given by others. Especially, in my case and life ⁦South London girl by the sea⁩ who knows what it means to have a partner with PD. thetimes.com/article/3953a3…

The Byker viaduct was the first bridge structure in Britain to be built using cantilevered concrete sections with joints glued with epoxy resin. It opened on 11 November 1982 when Metro services commenced between St James and Tynemouth. #Railway200

Such a great Tony Harrison poem - written about the death of his father who was a baker.

A couple of weeks ago, our reporter Ivana got in touch with an idea about visualising the timing of air raid sirens in Kyiv, and how Russian tactics have seemingly changed... I went through a couple of other ideas before settling on visualising the whole year so far in this way.

As for many poets uneasy in their class consciousness, Tony Harrison’s brilliant controversial long poem V. (1985) blew me away when I first read it. But his short lyrics were sharp, wise and deeply moving too, cut from lived life. Saddened to hear the great man has passed. RIP.

This October I’m ‘playing’ with words. Follow me in the lead-up to National Poetry Day (Thursday October the 2nd), and after, as we celebrate the poetic pull of spoken words and how it plays in our minds and hearts as I visit schools and tour the stage! linktr.ee/mikegarry

Possibly upset regarding our fight about a lizard