Richard Allardice

Whelmed We often hear of people being overwhelmed or underwhelmed, but you can actually also just be whelmed. The Oxford dictionary defines it likes this: whelm — engulf, submerge, or bury: a swimmer whelmed in a raging storm — [no object] well up or flow: the brook whelmed up from its source

How to be a person It’s the people you grow up with – parents, caregivers, siblings – who get to witness most closely, for better or worse, your development into a person in the world. Perhaps for you that was a relatively harmonious evolution and everyone just got along. Or maybe

I don’t own any vinyl records, but recently I was wondering about grooves – specifically, how often the stylus of a record player wears down into the record, carving a valley, damaging the sound, making it unlikely the stylus would ever escape. It turns out this isn’t how it