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Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler – the John Lennon and Paul McCartney of children’s publishing – are sitting in Donaldson’s garden in West Sussex on one of the hottest days of the year, gazing into her fish pond. “There’s Swampy,” smiles Donaldson, pointing to a fat fish flapping past. “And that one’s John.” Scheffler, as solemn as Donaldson is sunny, makes the brief nod of one who has heard about the fish many times before, but is still quietly amused by them.Ever since their first book together, A Squash and a…

Julia Jacklin – Too in Love to DieFor fans of: Doris Day, Nancy Sinatra, Lana Del ReyHalfway through Julia Jacklin’s third album Pre Pleasure comes the LP’s emotional fulcrum: a sparse, spiritual track driven by a lone organ and Jacklin’s declaration of a love so powerful it can inoculate against death. Sequenced directly after the pop rush of earlier single I Was Neon, Too in Love to Die commands complete attention with Jacklin’s wide-eyed emoting. “If I stepped out on the highway, all the cars would spin around me like…

20. Mary Reilly (1996)Julia Roberts got flak for her Irish accent (an Irish friend says “she gets away with kinda sorta sounding a bit Irish-ish”), but it’s not her fault this housemaid’s-eye view of the Jekyll and Hyde story is a dud. I blame dreary directing by Stephen Frears and John Malkovich’s monotonous performance as the two-faced doctor.19. Dying Young (1991)Spoiler: no one dies in this romantic whimsy about a wealthy leukaemia patient who falls for his working-class carer. Of course he does! It’s Roberts looking…

Julia Jacklin is a confessional singer-songwriter, with all the trouble that brings: the need to produce pain on schedule; the compromised boundaries. But this wry, canny Australian shrugs at these tropes and keeps mining her life for discomfort on her assured third album, Pre Pleasure. It’s a record about the impossibility of communication, and never quite solving your problems. I Was Neon catalogues all the ways Jacklin has tried to present “correctly” – a deceptively easygoing indie rock tune whose wordless…

Photo by Anne Nygård on UnsplashHow to create statistical plots using the Gadfly.jl packageThis is the first of several articles where I compare different Julia graphics packages for creating statistical plots. I start the series here with the Gadfly-package.In the introduction to the series (The Grammar of Graphics or how to do ggplot-style plotting in Julia), I’ve explained the Grammar of Graphics (GoG) which is the conceptual base for these graphics packages. In that article I’ve also introduced the data which will be…

In the wake of her second album Crushing, Julia Jacklin found herself in an enviable position.Her 2016 debut Don’t Let The Kids Win had been warmly received, but Crushing seemed to hit a nerve and a cultural moment. Songs such as Body, Head Alone and Pressure to Party charted a messy, cathartic arc that was part breakup album, part reclamation of personal and bodily autonomy – and they arrived amid a wave of singer-songwriters, including Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus, who were recasting folk and Americana to tap a…

Apple Silicon support, typed globals, and moreImage by AuthorJulia 1.8 is hot off the GitHub release pipeline, jam-packed with tons of helpful new features. If you want a full overview of all of the new changes, check out the release blog post from the core development team.In this post, I will highlight 3 of the features mentioned in the link above which get me the most excited about this release!With more and more developers starting to make the transition to using Apple Silicon, the need for open source tools to work…

Photo by Agence Olloweb on UnsplashIntroduction to a comparison of Julia graphics packages for statistical plottingThe Grammar of Graphics (GoG) is a concept that has been developed by Leland Wilkinson (The Grammar of Graphics, Springer, 1999) and refined by Hadley Wickham (A Layered Grammar of Graphics, Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 3–28, 2010; pdf).Its main idea is that every statistical plot can be created by a combination of a few basic building blocks (or mechanisms). This…

Julia Fox created a storm with her iconic role in 2019’s Uncut Gems. However, she made headlines this year for her rumoured romance with Kanye West. Though she parted ways from Ye, her fans and followers are increasing. Moreover, the actress is a rising star with the biggest movie under her belt. However, here are everything you should know about her. Julia Fox’s Net WorthJulia Fox was born on February 2, 1990, in Italy. The Italian-American actress and model is known for her debut performance in the 2019 film Uncut…

Julia and Danny tied the knot in 2002. The couple has three kids - 17-year-old twins Hazel and Phinnaeus, and 15-year-old Henry Picture courtesy/Julia Roberts' Instagram account It looks like Hollywood actress Julia Roberts can't get enough of her husband. On Monday, Julia celebrated her 20th wedding anniversary with her husband Danny Moder. To mark the occasion, Julia took to her Instagram and posted a loved-up picture of the…