One of my favourite examples of how people react to economic incentives:

Architectural tax avoidance👇
🇬🇧 UK : tax on windows
🇻🇳 Vietnam: tax on frontage
🇫🇷 France: tax on floors (roof exempted)
🇧🇷 Brazil: tax on church construction (when finished)

How do you balance academic research and SF writing, Fiona?

This is what my Bank wrote to me this morning. And here is my reply

Just got an advert for American Girl HISTORICAL dolls... based on the year 1999. Well. I feel old. 😳☠️🪦

Achievement unlocked! Just saw the northern lights in downtown Reykjavik. Stunning 🤩

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Pretty evening at Madingley Hall tonight.

Beautiful night at Trinity College, Cambridge. The main lights flickered then went out at formal hall, meaning the end of dinner was in near-dark. The emergency lights over the portraits cast a fun glow on Great Court lawn.

Always fun to read about mostly vegetarian Anglo-Saxons! bbc.com/news/uk-englan…

It's that time of the year again when I put Dr. back in my title because it is, in fact, my title, and the world is a bit weird about women and this specific title for no good reason. I'm sorry to hear Dr. Abby Lawson and others are still struggling with this too.

A farmer, a fox, and a chicken need to cross the river and they only have two rapid antigen tests among them. What is the optimal testing strategy if the farmer and chicken share a household but the fox had a negative PCR on Wednesday?

Sister-in-law asked my 5 year-old if she'd make her a Halloween mask. 5 year-old was super excited by the idea and made this. Ah, the joys of growing up in a pandemic.

As David Price said:
Today in 'unfortunate placement of footnotes'...

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Cambridge at dusk is the best.