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Jul 30, 2021Jul 2021

A long slow scientific experiment, which has perhaps even outlived its creators. And created something beautiful. A short but interesting read. The Monks Wood Project.

If you think that religion is a bad thing today, then I am sorry to say that I have a very sad thought to share. Religion lives by providing an alternative to the mainstream secular education and thought. In the dark ages when mainstream culture ...

I know that some people think that Hyper-realism, is a bit old hat, but here is what has been done with some even more worn out old icons, certainly bringing them back to new life. Someone, added a little animation as well, which I do not think adds ...

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Nihilism; the good the bad and the ugly

May 21, 2022May 2022

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Is nihilism not just a natural part of growing up and maturing anyway ? We start as babies at the centre of our parents universe, treated like gods and indulged in everything. When we reach school we have to learn that we are not the most important ...

On the eastern coasts of the Atlantic, where there is a maritime climate, rain-forests once grew as far north as Britain. A link to an article about a few precious remains of a once important ecosystem, and how they are coming to be valued. ...

A very short one about amazing birds, and if you think you knew all about pigeons just watch.

Mystery generates wonder, and wonder generates awe. The gasp can terrify or the gasp can emancipate. Ursula Goodenough

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Science, Health & History Tidbits

Aug 25, 2020Aug 2020

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Taking stats out into a new field. Quite a long article which starts shakily but it gets better and better.

I once thought that 'youtube' was the most interesting site on the web, until I discovered this one. But 'youtube' is still very good. So question, which is your second best website and why ? Or in other words do you know about something we may all ...

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Science, Health & History Tidbits

Jun 18, 2020Jun 2020

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A very obvious question, but some interesting answers.

Some times you inherit something useful.

A resurrection story for just before Christmas, enjoy because this one is real. And some colour.

Do you think there is such a thing as a, nice people fallacy. We often say that you can hate an idea without hating the people who hold it. Do you think however, that there may be an equal and opposite fallacy which results from, judging ideas and ...

One of the farms nearby, has planted a wildflower meadow, which is still in flower even this late in the season. (Perhaps too late.) They are becoming a very fashionable feature in the UK today, especially with green minded people, in part because we...

Natural childbirth and rearing, from a spy camera. Could do without the cutsy voice over at the end but well worth it.

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Science, Health & History Tidbits

Apr 15, 2023Apr 2023

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I think that sometimes things just go wrong, and it is often complex, you just have to shrug and try again. Fortunately perhaps some did. Oh. I like these videos but perhaps the writers and the people who do the picture don't ...

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Action Advocates for our Environment and Ecology

Mar 1, 2021Mar 2021

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A beautiful creature in need of, and getting help, and pictures of a wonderful environment too.

Reasons for not hating those who disagree. Because either they are right and I have failed to listen. They are wrong and I have failed to teach. Or we are both wrong, and we have both failed to learn. But whichever way it is, some of the fault is ...

We are all trying to find something useful and interesting to do while we are locked down at home. But some people are really lucky I suppose.

A friend produced an automatic wildlife camera, and we placed it on my garden pond for a couple of nights. There are no real revelations so far, but I did manage a duck and the squirrel who I have been trying to photograph for a long time.. Possibly ...

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CLASSICAL, OPERA and CROSSOVER

Sep 9, 2020Sep 2020

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Quite short but just a lovely sound.

Nothing so absurd can be said, that some philosopher has not said it. Cicero.

During a walk in the woods today, and on a tiny oak tree, I found this wonderful cluster of, so called, Oak Apples. Though of course they are not fruit, but galls, a sort of tumor formed when the tree is infected by a parasitic gall wasp in the ...

First signs of spring here perhaps. The first flush of green on the hedges, though it varies a lot, most still have none, and the lambs are out.

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Science, Health & History Tidbits

Nov 15, 2018Nov 2018

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Here are some you may not have met with before, and they show just how quirky evolution can be.

The catkins of willow, alder and hazel are truly a sign of the coming spring, if only because they are found on woody plants, whose leafing and seeding life will stretch right through the summer. Yet cleverly take advantage of the leafless spring to ...

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Science, Health & History Tidbits

Oct 5, 2020Oct 2020

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The past may be far more complex than you thought. Meet some interesting, and perhaps new to you creatures.

Just more on that wonderful diversity, and if you though that the Kiwi was strange and wonderful, just watch this, they are amazing.

Bit on real ecology, and how some plants make their way in the world, and why.

CLASSICAL, OPERA and CROSSOVER

Feb 3, 2020Feb 2020

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Here's another from Mendelssohn, which I really love. It was a choice between this and the Italian Sym. but this is short and . The Midsummer Nights Dream.

How an Academy, a very special flora and fauna, an island chain and a forgotten bit of history, all help one another move forward into the digital age. Great story from the Smithsonian.

The old invasive species problem, may not always be be doom forever. Time, money, care and effort can work.

The amazement at the wonderful seemingly never ending range of creature that inhabit this planet, watch a video about this one. Popcorn anyone.

How jocund did they drive their team afield! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure; Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile, The short and simple annals of ...

More on rewilding, but this time from the USA side of the pond. Enjoy a simple video, I did.

Being different to the rest, may help.

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CLASSICAL, OPERA and CROSSOVER

Feb 28, 2019Feb 2019

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Grieg very slow and lyrical. Enough said.

Allamanda on here posted about Donald Culross Peattie the other day. An author on natural history especially, who to my mind is still, after nearly a century, well worth the read. As a sample I found this, which seems to almost presage Richard ...

You may find that you have too much time at the moment., but I think that this is still worth thinking about. Especially if like me you are coming close to retirement.

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Science, Health & History Tidbits

Nov 22, 2018Nov 2018

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One for future history perhaps.

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CLASSICAL, OPERA and CROSSOVER

Nov 17, 2019Nov 2019

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Just posted a Tom And Jerry, but here is another unusual rendering, which is fun in a quite different way. PS,. Does anyone remember the Guinness advert ?

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Academic (e.g., Science)

Nov 6, 2021Nov 2021

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That stuff that you throw away every day, how harmful is it ?

Predation, evolution always seems to find a way. And another reason to avoid Australia. LOL

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Science, Health & History Tidbits

Apr 24, 2021Apr 2021

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Its an ill wind they say. Thoughts about the possible benefits of the fall of the Roman Empire, especially to western civilization, and why it made Europe an innovative spring. (Warning to the sensitive, some of this historians conclusions are fairly...

This is a native Peacock butterfly (you can see why) photographed in the garden last summer, on my white Buddleja. Buddleja is by far the best butterfly attractor we have here in the UK, but it is considered an invasive foreign species, and there is ...

Another story from deep time, but this time very deep, far beyond imagination to perhaps the very first time there was growth.

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CLASSICAL, OPERA and CROSSOVER

Mar 20, 2019Mar 2019

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An old favourite yet the presentation and pace of this rendering suits the subject so well, and the chorus gets a second hearing which is even better. See what you think.

Just an interesting story about two plants. I love this guys videos, but they are not for you if you have difficulty with strong language. You have been warned.

Ok, the basic click bait title is a bit silly, but the video introduces some really interesting studies.

To continue thinking out loud, about none literal belief, and the harm that comes from the culture of religion, rather than the supposed word of none existent gods. What really makes religion a problem, is that it encourages people to think that its ...

How to manage squirrels, a lesson from a tree.

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CLASSICAL, OPERA and CROSSOVER

Feb 19, 2019Feb 2019

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Generally speaking I am not that keen on Handel, but this is something wonderfully simple from Xerxes.

A really wonderful group of animals, and though only eight in number they are still very important. A great piece about how they evolved.

Do we always cause harm. Is it wrong to create ecosystems, or even recreate lost ones ? Here is a really interesting example to think about.

Making choices in changing times.

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Science, Health & History Tidbits

Jun 7, 2021Jun 2021

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A question for this group, or anyone who may know something about the practice of genetics, there is something I always wondered. If I have a DNA test done, and my sequences read, it will start from a sample, from say, a mouth swab, taken from the ...

What happens to the world without humans, perhaps even radiation is not as bad as human beings.

Patience rewarded on both sides.

Healing and the beauty of the lost.

If you are worried that face masks may become fashionable, it could be far worse.

The amazing skills of some animals. ( Also posted in the science group.)

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Vegan\Vegetarian World

Feb 11, 2019Feb 2019

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What can you use as a substitute for milk in tea and coffee, I have tried soya but it tastes like sludge ?

This was my first encounter with the large, impressive and much hallowed White Stork in Portugal. The pair were happily lingering and engaging in quiet displays of affection, no more than perhaps five meters from the ground, just off a busy and noisy...

I just posted this from a local village, Caistor, in the photography group, but thought that you would like to see it too. Every year the council organizes a village flower planting festival, to decorate it.

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Academic (e.g., Science)

Nov 21, 2020Nov 2020

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A good overview perhaps of anti-science/reason and its basic methods.

Another super feline, even more clever and beautiful than most.

Seagulls driving worms to the surface, by paddling, you can see one make a catch.

Just a thought, but I joined this group sometime ago, not especially to comment or make posts, but because I thought that the members here make interesting posts which I would like to read. Yet I do not seem to get notifications from this group. ...

I don't often follow fashions, but I needed a screen for the bottom of the garden , and these things called 'dead hedges' are becoming increasingly popular here now. They are supposed to be good for wildlife, much better than burning your prunings ...

But leave the Wise to wrangle, and with me / The Quarrel of the Universe let be: / And, in some corner of the Hubhub coucht, / Make Game of that which makes as much of Thee. Edward Fitzgerald./Omar K.

You may not agree with all of this, I don't. You may think some of it is obvious to the point of banality, I do. But it is still a very short and worthwhile listen.

The back story perhaps, and what the KGB may have done.

The Bible was made up over a number of centuries by many different editors using multiple sources. In short it is not a book but an album or scrape book of clippings, some of which may have come from high literature, but certainly not all of it, and ...

A seasonal look at birds in winter, and their amazing stories of survival. Some great and beautiful footage too.

The garden seems to be filling up with Peacock Butterflies now. Especially on the Buddleja, one of the best Butterfly and Bee plants.

This may not be the last eating babies joke, but it may not be a joke any longer just delicious.

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Small Business Owners & The Self Employed

Sep 29, 2019Sep 2019

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Well that's it for this year, I shut up shop today for the winter. There is a great advantage in being a seasonal business, (plant nursery) because now that the season is over I can regroup, make repairs and changes. I sometimes think it must be very...

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UK Atheists & Agnostics

Jun 4, 2020Jun 2020

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Well I now see, that after our governments mishandling of and lying about just about everything, since the pandemic began. The MPs have now voted to let themselves go back and play in the nursery again. So that instead of one D. Cummings setting a ...

OK if you do not like cute, don't watch this. Debussy "Clair de Lune" on Piano for 80 Year Old Elephant.

I think this is a really well observed video, so much can be got out of a simple subject.

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Science, Health & History Tidbits

You have to post about this eventually, but this is more thoughtful than most.

How Europe colonized even the world of plants, and why we pay the price to this day.

Not exactly pure natural history, but an interesting article about life expectancy, and meet an amazing animal.

I certainly claim the title of “nerd” . In fact I am proud flag waving Nerd Pride member. Another member really liked this. (Definition. Nerd. Envy word used by the victims of popular culture, for those who escaped.)

This is about captive rescue animals but the over view is good, if you are not put off by the cute presentation.

Is there not a deep significance in symbiosis, and how widespread and varied it is. The river of genes flows, and many streams mix in the current. Lichens. Also in Natural history.

Sound effects. Just speaks for itself literally.

Great photography and wonderful detail. Just how perfect can a little avian dinosaur get.

If you think that religion is not a good thing now, then what about the future. In resent times, most if not all of the real progress in the human and moral world has been made by secular institutions like the UN publishing universal human rights, ...

Posting this as much because I like the graphic, as any other reason. Respect anyone on that journey,.

The big picture only yes, and a well worn story, but it is really beautiful, and it is good sometimes just to remember how beautiful the objects, the ideas and the stories can be. Quite short. Enjoy.

When one journey ends a bigger one begins. The return of one wolf. (Good ten mins read.)

Interesting stories, about the lonely few. And for the evolutionary theorists among you. Is this the opposite of convergent evolution ?

Some people think that the typical image of Christ that we have today was originally modeled on Cesare Borgia. The evidence is thin but certainly the image of Christ we have today first became popular at the right time. The odd one or two before, ...

Out this morning, May 2, across the hill behind the village, I heard the first really rich bird chorus of the year so far. It put me in mind of the "Bird Nerd" whose videos are well worth checking out if you have time. In this one her season seems to...

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Academic (e.g., Science)

Jan 20, 2021Jan 2021

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Despite the cold, the spring bulbs are still forcing their way up. The interesting point is that, unlike most plants which grow by dividing and increasing their cell numbers, the spiring bulbs increase their size, by inflating their existing cells ...

Spain is trying to show a lead in pushing back environmental degradation. And may be having some success.

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