Bryn Pascoe

The Latin name is Aplysia punctata and it looks like a wet slipper

Five animals from one stretch of Cornish shore: a sea hare that inks with its own lunch, an anemone eater, a limpet, a cushion star, a barnacle.

The walls of Pompeii were mostly people being annoying

One graffito turns up on three Pompeian walls and it is a complaint about graffiti. Real CIL numbers, bad spelling, and why I take the walls into class.

Cape Wrath Trail, eleven days, and everything that got wet

Eleven days from Fort William to the lighthouse: the day by day numbers, the order in which everything got soaked, and the two days I would like back.

I lost a won endgame and I want you to see it

A Lucena position I knew cold, and the one move on move 61 where I stopped asking which piece was supposed to move. Full annotation, clock times included.

Sea slugs are the best argument against design

Stolen harpoons, stolen chloroplasts, disposable genitals, and a slug that throws away its own body and grows another. None of it looks planned.

How to read a supplement study in nine minutes

The order I read them in, the specific red flag at each step, and one clean trial walked through end to end. Most papers fail before minute three.

Your pack is four kilos heavier than you think

How to weigh a pack honestly, bin bag and wet tent included, and the point where cutting grams stops buying you speed and starts costing you sleep.

The pawn structure that taught me patience

The Carlsbad structure and the minority attack, written for the student who wants a sacrifice by move fifteen. Three plans each side, and two games worth an hour.

Catullus 85 in Arabic, and what broke

I disagreed with Nefeli about excrucior, so I translated the poem into Arabic to test it. The root fought back and she turned out to be partly right.