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O Captain! My Captain!
The acclaimed, award-winning star of stage and screen has died at the age of 86 after ‘a brief and poignant journey with Alzheimer’s disease and Lewy body dementia’. He leaves behind celebrated roles in Star Trek and X-Men as well as a long career in theatre https://www.theguardian.com/culture/gallery/2026/oct/29/patrick-stewart-a-life-in-pictures?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other Sir Pat apparently suffered from Alzheimer’s as well as Lewy […]
New dwarf planet discovered?
The new dwarf planet candidate joins thousands of known objects in an area of the solar system beyond Neptune known as the Kuiper Belt. And the scientists say there may be more of them. https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2026-10-27/potential-new-dwarf-planet-found-by-harvard-astrophysicists The Vera C Rubin Observatory (in Chile) which enabled astrophysicists from Harvard to spot “2026 ED138” will be featured in […]
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First Year Wall (Part 2) – The (not-so voluntary) parent-teacher conference
In mid-April, I went to a parent-teacher conference. Actually, it was more like an enforced PTA committee, which one parent per kid had to attend. As a group. We sat at our kids’ desks (tiny!) and introduced ourselves. This was … Continue reading
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