I am none of these. I'm in my late 50's and have been paying income tax since I was 16. Sure, rescind my voting rights ... I'd like all my 40+ years taxes back please then.
The latest results from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) collaboration, which involves UCL researchers, combined four methods for measuring the expansion of the universe for the first time.
It's a nice bit of prose but I am struggling to see what this has to do with boredom.
Staring out of window looking at scenery is for all intents and purposes doing something. This isn't even close to the silly pre-oocupation with 'raw dogging'. Being in a place (even if it is only in your mind) that brings you peace as you describe it above is not boredom. There is no tension to be doing something else, at least it doesn't sound like it.
I can sit in a room in the dark lying on the couch staring at the ceiling (that I cannot actually see) and stay like that for hours - I am absolutely 'doing' nothing but I am also absolutely not bored.
So I don't think 'hitting the road' is as you put it 'embracing boredom at all' it simply doing something else.
The next time you feel like hitting the road, don't. Stay at home and be truly bored.
Hikaru Nakamura commented on Chess960 (or 'Freestyle' chess as chess.com is desperately trying to re-brand it) and said that as a 'spectator' sport he felt that only the high-elo crowd would really get excited about 960.
To clarify, not that lower ELO or the casual player wouldn't enjoy it but that there is so much history with the standard layout that even the beginner ends up understanding the high-level tactics and strategies of the openings.
This makes standard chess much more enjoyable for more people to watch and follow (i.e. bums-on-seats at the chess tournaments). While the super grandmasters are celebrities for the chess crowd in their own right, those lower down don't generate that kind of excitement and throwing 960 in the mix would see much less eyes than normal chess does.
Literally 960 different layouts might generate some types of opening theory, but to layman or perhaps 2200 and lower ELO players it just isn't that much fun to watch.
They are both equivalent. Scratch-built is perfectly cromulant.
My father used to talk about 'Scratch-building' his WWII dioramas and model vehicles/tanks. While you could use a phrase like 'Scratch-cooked' rather than cooking from scratch, I've never heard but someone would not think the former meant something different to the latter.
Hmm I wonder if an Ox would be exempt from the new congestion cameras they've just set up. I can see some exemptions for commercial HGVs so maybe they might come under that.
> If a ninth planet exists in our solar system, scientists say this telescope would find it in its first year.
Why?
I read the article and it wasn't clear to me what makes this telescope more likely (and within a year) be able to find this infamous Planet 9 than any other attempts.
Not so much Check-cashing (although they do exist in some parts of larger cities) and I haven't seen a pawn-shop outside of London in ... forever.
We do have Vapeshops (before that 'Legal High' shops) but apart from those Charity Shops you get a lot of 'Gambling' (aka 'High Street Bookies') chains in those areas where the footfall has gone away to the out of town supermarkets or where the landlords are sitting on what they hope will get turned into flats so they can make a profit.
What I would say regarding Oxfam, at least in the area I live is that the book selection is suprisingly good, both in Oxford and Chipping Norton's where the second hand book selection has given me some great reads and I have seen them refuse the 'Celeb/Sports star' biogs and bundles of Harry Potter cast offs from people while waiting to be served.
The museum is still pretty much curated as it was, I have been going on and off for the last 40 years. The glass roof refurb made a huge difference and they seem to rotate their large animal skeletons more than they did, which my friend's children are always thrilled with.
But it is the subtle bits of the museum I enjoy, the aforementioned roof and things like the fact that on the first floor every 'marble' pillar is actually a made of a different stone (i.e not all marble at all).
By former academic and current author Mark Scarbrough. 'Walking with Dante' is a passion project, taking on Dante's masterwork 'The Divine Comedy' passage-by-passage.
"I've taught it many times. But I've always felt rushed. I wanted to take this masterpiece at my speed. "