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After working on #TrustedResearchEnvironments / #SecureDataEnvironments for several years I still haven't figured out what the NHS #FederatedDataPlatform is
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After working on #TrustedResearchEnvironments / #SecureDataEnvironments for several years I still haven't figured out what the NHS #FederatedDataPlatform is
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After working on #TrustedResearchEnvironments / #SecureDataEnvironments for several years I still haven't figured out what the NHS #FederatedDataPlatform is
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After working on #TrustedResearchEnvironments / #SecureDataEnvironments for several years I still haven't figured out what the NHS #FederatedDataPlatform is
https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/21/greater_manchester_nhs_palantir/ -
After working on #TrustedResearchEnvironments / #SecureDataEnvironments for several years I still haven't figured out what the NHS #FederatedDataPlatform is
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#GeneralElectionUK candidates for Richmond and Northallerton Constituency https://www.northyorks.gov.uk/sites/default/files/2024-06/SPN%20Richmond%20and%20Northallerton%2007.06.2024%20-%20na.pdf #ge2024 #countbinface @CountBinface
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Dundee's #EdenProject is one step closer!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crggpy12er9o
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Describing what I do, using only the 1000 most popular words in the English language:
"Running computers to help people learn from large tables of numbers and words made by humans. Showing people how to run these computers to allow other people to also learn from other tables, and sharing this with everyone."
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I haven’t actually finished any of the books that I’ve already started reading, but I’m going to start to read this today and hope to finish it before the day is over. Happy Darwin Day everyone!
#CurrentlyReading #Goodreads #ReadingChallenge #Bibliophile #Booklovers #Bookworm #CharlesDarwin #OnNaturalSelection #Evolution #NaturalSelection #TheoryOfEvolution #DarwinDay #PenguinBooksGreatIdeas #GreatIdeas #PenguinBooks
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I have a front-of-catalog book coming out this spring with #PenguinBooks and MIT.
Famous professors try to sleep with 14 year old girls.
I'm asked to exhume a famous corpse.
A 12-year-old is stolen, the world's oldest man is debunked, and a CIA bloke accuses us of being Kremlin spies in #WaPo.
People die.
It's a non-fiction book.
You might be in it. Oxford, Stanford, Harvard, and Cambridge professors are in it. Billionaires you know are in it, too.
Order it now.
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Penguin Books are always a joy. Here are my 1960 editions of 'Quatermass II' and 'Quatermass And The Pit' teleplays. Both absolute classics, but I don't need to tell anyone that. The cover designs are by Nigel Kneale's brother Bryan. The first had a plain cover. #PenguinBooks #BookChatWeekly #scifi
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https://www.penguinbookshop.com/book/9781250284303
#CobaltRed: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
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#NowReading2025 DANGER & BEAUTY by Jessica Hagedorn via
@penguinbooks
imbibed at Motoyori Coffee Truck #Otemachi #大手町 #Coffee #Books #FoodTrucks #CoffeeStodon #CoffeeMastodon #BookStodon #BookMastodon
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#NowReading2026 THE BEAUTY OF EVERYDAY THINGS by Soetsu Yanagi via @penguinbooks
imbibed at pásele #Nezu #根津 #Books #Chocolate #BookStodon #BookMastodon
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#1199 Thor Heyerdahl - Aku-Aku: The Secret of Easter Island. Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1976, 1st Penguin edition, 6th reprint.
#ThorHeyerdahl #PenguinBooks #EasterIsland #RapaNui #Megaliths #Archaeology #BookOfTheDay
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#1172 Denys Val Baker (ed) - Cornish Short Stories. Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1976, 1st edition.
#DenysValBaker #PenguinBooks #Cornwall #JackClemo #DaphneDuMaurier #WinstonGraham #CharlesCausley #ALRowse #BookOfTheDay
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At The Yard, Salisbury — A Morning with Penguins
HOW PENGUIN BOOKS GOT ITS NAME — AND STARTED A PUBLISHING REVOLUTION
At the Yard, Salisbury, A Morning with PenguinsIt was a bright August morning when we wandered into The Yard, a tucked-away coffee shop in Salisbury that felt like a secret shared among friends. The scent of espresso mingled with freshly baked muffins, and the walls featured book covers — rows of orange, blue, and green Penguins, those timeless companions of readers everywhere.
At the Yard, Salisbury, A Morning with PenguinsAs we sipped our coffee (and yes, the hot chocolate was extraordinary), I remembered a story that began nearly a century ago — one that changed how the world reads.
At the Yard, Salisbury, A Morning with PenguinsIn 1935, Allen Lane, managing editor at The Bodley Head, stood on a train platform in Exeter after visiting Agatha Christie. Searching for a good-quality paperback for his journey back to London, he found only cheap, flimsy magazines. That moment sparked an idea that would transform publishing: books should be both affordable and beautifully made — quality literature priced like a daily newspaper.
Lane envisioned a series of paperbacks that would bring fine writing to everyone, sold not just in bookshops but in railway stations and corner stores. A young secretary, Joan Coles, suggested the name ‘Penguin,’ friendly and memorable. Lane sent 21-year-old artist Edward Young to the London Zoo to sketch the bird that would become one of the most beloved emblems in publishing history.
What many readers don’t realize is that the earliest Penguins were colour-coded — a design both simple and brilliant. Each colour represented a different genre: orange for fiction, dark blue for biography, red for drama, green for crime, black for serious non-fiction, purple for essays, and grey for world affairs. Together they formed a mosaic of modern reading — bright, confident, and accessible. When we looked at the colourful covers on The Yard’s walls, we were really looking at the visual history of how reading became democratic.
The literary establishment was scandalized. Serious literature, sold beside the morning paper? But readers had the final word. Hemingway, Christie, and Maurois found new homes in satchels and coat pockets across Britain. Within a year, millions of Penguins were in circulation — proof that good books belong to everyone.
As I looked at those covers in The Yard, I realized that the Penguin revolution wasn’t just about paperbacks. It was about trust — the belief that ordinary people deserved access to extraordinary ideas.
At the Yard, Salisbury, A Morning with PenguinsIn a quiet corner of Salisbury, over coffee and conversation, I was reminded that revolutions don’t always begin with noise. Sometimes, they start with a small bird and a bold idea.
Until the next page,
Rebecca
#books #PenguinBooks #RebeccaSReadingRoom #Salisbury #TheBodleyHead
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My copy of the 1938 Penguin Books edition of 'The Centaur' by Algernon Blackwood. I'm rather pleased to own a 1930s Penguin, especially one by a favourite author. #BookChatWeekly #PenguinBooks #AlgernonBlackwood #paperbacks #fantasyfiction
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#1073 Jean-Paul Sartre - Nausea. Penguin Books Ltd, Harmondsworth, 1970, 1st Penguin edition, 4th reprint.
#JeanPaulSartre #PenguinBooks #Philosophy #Existentialism #BookOfTheDay
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#NowReading2025 LIMITARIANISM: THE CASE AGAINST EXTREME WEALTH by Ingrid Robeyns via
@penguinbooks imbibed at Nito Coffee #Sendagi #千駄木 #Books #Coffee #Kissa #Kissaten #Tokyo #BookStodon #BookMastodon #CoffeeStodon #CoffeeMastodon #TokyoStodon #TokyoMastodon
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Bello Bear Ep. 6: Penguinophobia - The one where Bello fears tuxedo judgment. #webcomic #funnyanimals #comicstrip #penguins #indiecomics #bears #articpanic #bello #comicseries
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#923 Philip Ziegler - The Black Death. Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1984, 1st edition, reprint of reissue. #PhilipZiegler #PenguinBooks #Plague #Epidemics #Medieval #BookOfTheDay
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#NowReading2024 THE FORTUNE MAN by Nadifa Mohamed via @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social thanks to Arakawa #PublicLibrary imbibed at Flying Scotsman Cafe #Ueno #上野
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#737 Alexander Solzhenitsyn - August 1914. Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1974, reprint of first Penguin edition. #AlexanderSolzhenitsyn #PenguinBooks #SovietUnion #Russia #Communism #WW1 #History #BookOfTheDay
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#737 Alexander Solzhenitsyn - August 1914. Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1974, reprint of first Penguin edition. #AlexanderSolzhenitsyn #PenguinBooks #SovietUnion #Russia #Communism #WW1 #History #BookOfTheDay
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#737 Alexander Solzhenitsyn - August 1914. Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1974, reprint of first Penguin edition. #AlexanderSolzhenitsyn #PenguinBooks #SovietUnion #Russia #Communism #WW1 #History #BookOfTheDay