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Where did Groundhog Day come from? Taylor Drift conquers Minnesota. Is the maximum size of a PDF really “smaller than Germany”? Wales’ “Kingdom of Books.” Is E Ink finally ready for prime time? Cursive handwriting is starting to be taught again, for some reason. 3D printing using liquid metal. Casual vandalism is OK if you’re a Romantic poet. A round-up of some of the “good, bad, and weird stuff that was crowdfunded in 2023.” The James Webb Space Telescope captures 19 amazingly d...

EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Marr recalls a Buckingham Palace dinner where after being told that her husband Philip had called the project utter tripe, the Queen intervened to say she had watched it.

Dont do it! This was my first thought when John Cleese announced his plan to bring back Fawlty Towers, 44 years after the last episode was first transmitted.

Monotype released its 2023 Type Trends Report. The mystery of Frank Herbert’s “Dune” typography revealed. The growth in demand for…newspaper boxes? A rabbi delivers a sermon written by ChatGPT. A visual game in which you are shown a photograph and have to identify what year it’s from. What time is it on the Moon? Rolex is suing a maker of children’s clocks. You might want to pay attention to “Road Closed” signs. Trader Joe’s announces its (controversial) Customer Choice Awards...

All about Groundhog Day. Tetrachromats have an extra photoreceptor that lets them see 100 times as many colors as the rest of us. 7-Eleven is testing touchless “floating holographic displays” for self-checkout. A mistranslated sign inadvertently advertises free alcohol. A gigantic, 60-socket power bank could fully charge 5,000 smartphones with 3,000-mAh batteries. A gallery of “automated furniture.” Enhancing the energy storage capacity of graphene supercapacitors used in solar heating. ...

Who’s who in Mackenzie Crook’s new take on the scarecrow of Scatterbrook, featuring Paul Kaye and Steve Pemberton.

Life of Brian film poster John Cleese, 81, tweeted on Sunday: “Today I finished the first draft of the script for the stage version of Life of Brian. Not a musical, as songs slow the pace down too much. Depending on Covid, we might be able to do it in the second half of next year.” He concluded: “No Pythons in the cast. We’ve had enough die already.” Talk of a stage version of Life of Brian, probably one of the 10 funniest movies of all times, began in 2014, after the initial Broadway...

The arts and culture stars who died in 2020 By BBC Culture Editors30th December 2020 BBC Culture editors pay tribute to the luminaries of the arts and culture world who we sadly lost this year. Elizabeth Wurtzel (Credit: Getty Images) January to March On 7 January, Elizabeth Wurtzel, author of infamous 1994 memoir Prozac Nation, died aged 52. Her "groundbreakingly candid" book covered her parents divorce, depression, self-harm and sex – and deeply divided critics at the time, while inspiring...

Best of 2020: Comedy by Veronica LeeWednesday, 30 December 2020 The third series of the Dear Joan & Jericha (Vicki Pepperdine, left, and Julia Davis) podcast was released this year What a year that was. Live performance was stopped dead in its tracks for most of 2020, and comedy – as viscerally live as you can get in dark and sweaty enclosed spaces above pubs or in club basements – was particularly hard hit. Never again, I suspect, will comedy fans complain about the privations of broom-c...