Sam Miller

In Marie NDiaye’s Spellbinding New Novel, Witchcraft Stays in the Family

In Marie NDiaye’s Spellbinding New Novel, Witchcraft Stays in the Family

Witchcraft was traditionally a form of occult knowledge: esoteric, hidden, available only to initiates. Now, though, with the widespread circulation of magic manuals, grimoires, and related compendia—with the recording, on paper, of words, spells, histories, stories—witchcraft has taken an irreversible step into the exoteric realm. The chain through which it once passed, from trusted person…

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We went to Finland to hear about the new ‘sand battery’ that will turn stored renewable energy back into power for the electrical grid

PORNAINEN, Finland ‪—‬ Engineers will soon begin testing a new “sand battery” that will convert energy stored as heat back into power that can be fed into the electricity grid. However, they say challenges lie ahead, with investment cost potentially putting customers off. Polar Night Energy’s existing sand battery model stores renewable electricity by using…

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