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Natural history

Dec 30, 2019Dec 2019

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OK just cat picture but only this once I promise.

Natural history

Jan 3, 2020Jan 2020

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A classic of time lapse perhaps, but a very good presentation, and for those in the northern hemisphere, cheering at this time of year.

Natural history

Jan 15, 2020Jan 2020

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Its almost snowdrop time with us here, not spring yet but the first winter flowers, makes you think of spring though.

Science, Health & History Tidbits

Jan 22, 2020Jan 2020

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So maybe, we are not going to get a light show after all.

CLASSICAL, OPERA and CROSSOVER

Jan 28, 2020Jan 2020

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Just one instrument. Nothing more.

Science, Health & History Tidbits

Feb 12, 2020Feb 2020

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Dwarf planet, something hardly dreamed of when I was young, now we go there.

Natural history

Feb 14, 2020Feb 2020

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

CLASSICAL, OPERA and CROSSOVER

Feb 18, 2020Feb 2020

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So, its cold, damp, dark and miserable here where I am, but it is still summer in the southern hemisphere. Heres something very southern. Well it cheered me up a bit anyway.

CLASSICAL, OPERA and CROSSOVER

Feb 24, 2020Feb 2020

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Oh how I wish we had a tune like this for a national anthem here in the UK. Instead of the squeaky little jingle with the stupid sentiments. Stick with the video and just watch the amazing nature photos that go with it, they start off slowly then ...

Natural history

Mar 9, 2020Mar 2020

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I have just come back from a walking tour in Portugal, where spring seems already underway, and everything was in flower. Including Heathers, Lavender, Rock Roses and Man Orchid, maybe spring will get to me in a couple of months.

General & Hellos

Mar 18, 2020Mar 2020

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And prophecy. This was made in 2015, just how correct is it possible to be.

Natural history

Mar 21, 2020Mar 2020

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Cats again, yes. But this one is special.

Mar 31, 2020Mar 2020

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"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread." Anatole France. (I just posted this as a comment, on a post about how the coronavirus, will affect the ...

Natural history

Apr 5, 2020Apr 2020

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I posted this in the garden group, but thought it would go here as well. Some more of the wildflowers photographed in Portugal a few weeks ago, when we could still travel. The Cistus, also known as Sun or Rock Roses grow everywhere and flower from ...

Science, Health & History Tidbits

Apr 7, 2020Apr 2020

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A short history of the subject of history. Fun.

Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology

Apr 8, 2020Apr 2020

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Perhaps the biggest story, at least in numbers, of all from deep time.

Apr 16, 2020Apr 2020

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

Natural history

May 3, 2020May 2020

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Robbery with violence, sometimes life is just not fair.

General & Hellos

May 4, 2020May 2020

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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 ...

General & Hellos

May 11, 2020May 2020

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This came up on another post. Why do some people update their icon photos every few weeks. Surely consistency is the most useful thing you can have, in something which is designed to help people recognize you, and connect your posts and comments ...

Natural history

May 19, 2020May 2020

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Some thing very fast, but I am not sure if slowing down the film helps that much. Still good though.

Natural history

May 27, 2020May 2020

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A really amazing creature.

Natural history

May 30, 2020May 2020

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Creatures not often loved, but incredible none the less.

General & Hellos

Jun 18, 2020Jun 2020

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I you wish to know how well your country is doing controlling the virus. A lesser known statistic that could well be worth a second look.

Community Senate

Jun 29, 2020Jun 2020

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Words disappear. A funny thing happened on a post of mine yesterday. It was a light hearted post, which included a short humourus list of some reasons why some people may want to be religious leaders. Just four words, "money" and also "power" and ...

Natural history

Jul 1, 2020Jul 2020

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Dandelion Hunters

Jul 3, 2020Jul 2020

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Just don't ever do as you are told.

UK Atheists & Agnostics

Jul 7, 2020Jul 2020

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So what happened to the 'R' number then, which was so important just a couple of weeks ago, has anybody seen it lately ? Has it disappeared of its own accord, or was it taken into a dark wood and quietly strangled, and if so by WHO or if not by who ?...

Science, Health & History Tidbits

Jul 9, 2020Jul 2020

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For success don't join the march, just go to the pub get drunk and fall on the tracks OK.

Natural history

Jul 18, 2020Jul 2020

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Rare and unusual animal, very beautiful too.

Natural history

Jul 21, 2020Jul 2020

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Come on ladies, you have to admit that at least he's trying.

Religious Naturalism

Jul 26, 2020Jul 2020

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Wild Geese, Mary Oliver. You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I ...

Natural history

Jul 30, 2020Jul 2020

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More on cats with attitude. And sadly you would not believe that the horrors of the wild pet trade, have reached so far.

Natural history

Jul 30, 2020Jul 2020

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I took this today. In the UK a lot of the deer are semi-domestic, kept in parks, and they will let you get quite close, as long as you are in a car, but as soon as you open the door they vanish. Cars really are good hides, at least in countries where...

Silly, Random & Fun

Aug 5, 2020Aug 2020

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A strange thing happened on here a couple of days ago. (And yes, I do know that strange things happen here every day.) A new member messaged me, and started a private conversation. He then went on to say some really flattering things, about how ...

Natural history

Aug 12, 2020Aug 2020

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Its own little ecosystem. Sorry about the adds on this video but the subject is more than worth the small discomfort.

Natural history

Aug 19, 2020Aug 2020

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If this did not come from such a credible source, it would be hard to believe.

Natural history

Aug 22, 2020Aug 2020

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A little bit about my favourite animals. Enjoy the dance, and wonder.

Natural history

Aug 23, 2020Aug 2020

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Just the basics of family life taken to an extreme. My favourites again.

Philosophy & Meaning

Oct 25, 2018Oct 2018

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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.)

Nov 1, 2018Nov 2018

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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.

Nov 4, 2018Nov 2018

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

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.

Science, Health & History Tidbits

Nov 22, 2018Nov 2018

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One for future history perhaps.

Nov 22, 2018Nov 2018

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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 ...

Silly, Random & Fun

Dec 18, 2018Dec 2018

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

Science, Health & History Tidbits

Dec 19, 2018Dec 2018

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Population growth.

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 ?

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.

CLASSICAL, OPERA and CROSSOVER

Feb 28, 2019Feb 2019

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Grieg very slow and lyrical. Enough said.

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.

Philosophy & Meaning

Mar 22, 2019Mar 2019

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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 ...

Philosophy & Meaning

May 18, 2019May 2019

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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 ...

Small Business Owners & The Self Employed

Jul 27, 2019Jul 2019

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Since most small business people have a story to tell, which is usually very interesting, it may be a good idea to ask people if they would like to share their CV, just for fun if nothing else.

Silly, Random & Fun

Sep 1, 2019Sep 2019

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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, ...

This Day In History

Sep 28, 2019Sep 2019

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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. ...

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...

General & Hellos

Oct 22, 2019Oct 2019

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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 ...

UK Atheists & Agnostics

Nov 16, 2019Nov 2019

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When the weather is cold and grey. Find ye shelter where ye may. ( Hope you are all keeping your heads above water. )

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 ?

Religious Naturalism

Nov 21, 2019Nov 2019

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There are no things could, so much enduring give, As fragile things, that swiftly die; and live. Those ageless hosts, who lived and died. That with nature, might, in us provide. The fragments of the ancient life and woe, Becoming every feeling, that...

Silly, Random & Fun

Dec 4, 2019Dec 2019

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

Natural history

Dec 5, 2019Dec 2019

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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...

General & Hellos

Dec 6, 2019Dec 2019

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Almost the entire drive of human history has been, to find better ways of fooling your fellow humans, or better ways of killing them if they refused to be fooled. The best antidote is certainly true education, and best thing about nature is that it...

Natural history

Dec 15, 2019Dec 2019

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Some years ago having an idle moment and a tractor with driver to hand, I had a small pond dug, no sooner was this done this than we were adopted by a pair of moorhens, who came and started to nest in less than a couple of months and they or the ...

Natural history

Dec 16, 2019Dec 2019

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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 ...

Science, Health & History Tidbits

Dec 19, 2019Dec 2019

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If you have 20 mins to amuse yourself with a little history, which is often misunderstood, enjoy.

Natural history

Jan 4, 2020Jan 2020

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

Natural history

Jan 5, 2020Jan 2020

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If rare things are valuable then why not fake them, I don't think we are the first to think of that.

Natural history

Jan 6, 2020Jan 2020

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

Natural history

Jan 11, 2020Jan 2020

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I also posted this in the science group, but it seemed a shame to mis it of here too. Some interesting romantic creatures and how they came to live around the Med in the far distant past.

Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology

Jan 15, 2020Jan 2020

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Close physical contact.

Natural history

Jan 23, 2020Jan 2020

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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 ...

CLASSICAL, OPERA and CROSSOVER

Feb 1, 2020Feb 2020

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I think I may have posted one of these before, and it is certainly not great piano playing. BUT!

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.

Silly, Random & Fun

Feb 11, 2020Feb 2020

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I have seen the future of the internet. I used to think, like most people, that the internet existed to share cat photos, but no. The future is certainly Wombat videos. Enjoy.

Natural history

Feb 12, 2020Feb 2020

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Sound effects. Just speaks for itself literally.

Health & Happiness

Feb 25, 2020Feb 2020

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So what does success mean to you. To me it means have I helped to make the world a happier place, that may seem a bit of a smug thing to say, but it is perhaps a better track than some even if not perfect. listen to someone much more articulate. ...

Natural history

Mar 13, 2020Mar 2020

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Change is perhaps the only constant.

Natural history

Mar 13, 2020Mar 2020

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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.

Natural history

Mar 18, 2020Mar 2020

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

Natural history

Apr 5, 2020Apr 2020

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Making choices in changing times.

Silly, Random & Fun

Apr 6, 2020Apr 2020

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We may all need a cheer up, and as we have perhaps been getting enough opinions, I just thought that you may like this. Especially the US members who may not have met this lady before.

Health & Happiness

Apr 11, 2020Apr 2020

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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.

Natural history

Apr 17, 2020Apr 2020

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

CLASSICAL, OPERA and CROSSOVER

Apr 23, 2020Apr 2020

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Just for fun something to do during lock down ? I love what they did with the video too.

Natural history

Apr 24, 2020Apr 2020

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I find these parasites really interesting, some of them the Toothworts grow in my local woods, but this keen young person give a great introduction to them if you have not met them before.

Natural history

May 10, 2020May 2020

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Patience rewarded on both sides.

Action Advocates for our Environment and Ecology

May 12, 2020May 2020

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Concrete hopes. Perhaps, if as usual vested interest does not get in the way.

Natural history

May 17, 2020May 2020

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Plants are my favourite things, but even they can have a harmful side.

Natural history

May 31, 2020May 2020

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

Natural history

Jun 4, 2020Jun 2020

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

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 ...

Natural history

Jun 8, 2020Jun 2020

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Even before they were a basic tube, evolution had animals doing clever stuff.

Science, Health & History Tidbits

Jun 18, 2020Jun 2020

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A very obvious question, but some interesting answers.

Jun 18, 2020Jun 2020

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Some times you inherit something useful.

General & Hellos

Jul 9, 2020Jul 2020

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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, ...

Natural history

Jul 10, 2020Jul 2020

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That amazing diversity, its alway just mind expanding.

Natural history

Jul 17, 2020Jul 2020

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Working together, very dramatic.

Natural history

Jul 23, 2020Jul 2020

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

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