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From being the folksy best friend of anyone who was anything in the West Coast music scene, Joni Mitchell has gradually and unevenly developed into a songwriter of considerable stature. Her sixth and best album to date, Court and Spark (Asylum), is currently the top seller in America, which is mildly surprising: it is both too solemn and too good for that.Like the rest of her West Coast singer-songwriter mates (from Graham Nash through to Jackson Browne) she bases her songs around herself, her worries and experiences.…

Fragments of brain from an individual buried in a Victorian workhouse cemetery (Bristol, UK), some 200 years ago. No other soft tissue survived among the bones, which were dredged from the heavily waterlogged grave. Credit: Alexandra L. Morton-Hayward Soft tissue preservation in the geological record is relatively rare, and except where deliberate intervention halts the process of decay (like embalming or freezing), the…

Android 15 is still months away, but one of its new features has recently surfaced. Reportedly, users will be able to archive an app to save space on their smartphone, instead of completely uninstalling it. This app archiving feature is currently available in Google Play Store, for apps downloaded through the marketplace. However, there is no manual control, and apps downloaded from other app marketplaces do not support it. This is why an operating system-level feature via Android 15 could be much more useful.Spotted by…

In today's digital age, managing your social media presence efficiently is crucial, especially when it comes to platforms like Instagram. With the constant evolution of features and updates, staying on top of your content can sometimes feel overwhelming. However, Instagram offers a solution to this challenge by introducing the ability to delete or archive posts in bulk.Deleting or archiving Instagram posts in bulk has become a game-changer for users who want to streamline their content management process. Whether you're a…

If you use Google Wallet, you might know that the app automatically archives passes once they expire. Unfortunately, it doesn’t let you manually archive passes if you need to for whatever reason. Well, that seems to have changed. According to a new report from 9To5Google, Google Wallet now lets you archive passes manually. The option to archive a pass will come in handy the most with passes that the app can’t archive automatically, such as those that don’t have an expiry date. You can also use the archive option if you…

Super Sushi Pinball, a game that does not prominently feature sushi, never actually launched. It was meant to be Sony’s second game in the US, intended for the NES during a time when such news would not have melted the brains of console diehards, and was marketed in video game magazines for over a year. “This is a game that was last seen by anyone in 1990 at a trade show,” said Frank Cifaldi, founder of the Video Game History Foundation. “It just disappeared from the world.”That is until Cifaldi found it in the basement…

On the wall of an unassuming second- floor room in Newcastle University sits a map, Blu-Tacked, unframed. At first glance it looks like any other map of China. But on closer inspection, the cities labelled on the map are not just the major urban centres. They are the places that have hosted important film festivals over the years, the details of which are annotated in colour-coded text.Covering the final years of the so-called golden era of the scene, the map shows dozens of film festivals that used to be active across…

The archive of Stuart Sutcliffe, the original bassist with the Beatles, is up for sale, featuring more than 400 paintings and drawings – plus astonishing Beatles ephemera including an unfinished novel about John Lennon.Sutcliffe was a galvanising force in the Beatles, who met John Lennon when the pair were art students in Liverpool – after joining Paul McCartney and George Harrison in skiffle group the Quarrymen, it was Sutcliffe and Lennon who spliced a reference to Beat poets with a nod to Buddy Holly’s band the…

Even the "eternal ice" on the Grand Combin is not made to last forever. Visible at the upper right of the photo is the drilling camp of the 2020 Ice Memory expedition led by PSI researcher Theo Jenk. Credit: CNR, Ca' Foscari University/Riccardo Selvatico As part of the Ice Memory initiative, Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) researchers, with colleagues from the University of Fribourg and Ca' Foscari University of Venice as well as…

If you have a bit of Apple nostalgia and a few spare minutes, you can surf through the last 40 years of Mac history with just a few clicks. A site called Mac40th has launched that showcases photos from the book Iconic: A Photographic Tribute to Apple Innovation, allowing you to see them for free. According to the site: “You'll see a continuous stream of random Macs - just keep clicking 'Show me more Macs' and that's what you'll get. If you're a hardcore Mac fan, this site should keep you busy for a very long time.”As it…