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> Talk openly about how much you hate your phone... The idea of modelling the behaviour you're trying to teach your kids seems to be a key one as mentioned in this interview with Z…

Much as I love Glastonbury festival, even though I stopped going a few years back, the amount of waste generated definitely seems problematic. I think the festival does a great job…

Here's a story in the Guardian about a women who was visited by local police in New York after her family searched for pressure cookers and backpacks. https://www.theguardian.com/w…

I use iNaturalist semi-regularly and was about to start using it for a rewilding project I'm involved in, so looked into that and some of the alternatives. I really like how easy i…

I had the misfortunate of needing to hire a car in the UK last year. Ended up with an entry level 2025 Kia (Ceed Estate). Compared with the 2012 Audi A4 I'm used to driving it was …

Do you mean the Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton [1] (also a movie) and I seem to remember it being a good watch when I last watched though that might be a good 15 years ago. T…

Thanks, that's good to know. And I've just seen that you CAN get The Guardian Weekly digital subscription here, free if you've got a print subscription? Though obviously I'm wonder…

Similarly The Guardian has a weekly publication - https://support.theguardian.com/uk/subscribe/weekly Unfortunately it doesn't appear to have a digital option?

Thanks for adding to this. Not an expert on this by any means, but I always found this short series [1] quite fascinating on how cyanobacteria over a period of 200-300 million year…

I'm not sure of the licence specifics related to downstream water, but in general: The impact on downstream water is almost entirely positive, the leaky dams they build filter sedi…

Do you have any further info on this "one of the complaints of the Roman empire in its twilight years was that everyone wanted to write a book". I'm curious about some of the seemi…

I suspect burning $1 notes one at a time might take a very long time (it takes longer than you might expect burning bundles of £50 notes [1]) and as you say "What this guy is missi…

There's been numerous attempts at removing invasives, as you point out some successful, some not. I found this one of New Zealand, which has particularly unique habitats, trying to…

The Rewilding term is definitely mercurial, Isabella Tree (Knepp) in this talk [1] sums this quite poetically by saying it's a term that "rewilds itself". Alastair Driver (Director…

Yes, as you both mention, great prose and great insight. One of my favourite pieces of nature writing as it succinctly cuts through what seems to be the modern disease of problem c…

It's worth remebering this last phrase "In that simple fashion does the man who outwitted the cleverest of animal criminals tell his story." whilst reading Aldo Leopold famous shor…

For any Slay the Spire fans, the Downfall fan expansion is well worth playing. The ability to go backwards through the game as some of the various bosses challenging the normal cha…

Similarly I have fond memories of the last.fm era, discovering new music via people with similar tastes who I might often end up chatting to. Wasn't it also around this time that P…

It might be this [1] which says "According to the report, the decision was made by officials to continue to build the Birmingham Curzon Street Station to its full specification bec…

There's a good documentary about the John Hopkins research on treating drug resistant depression with psilocybin which unfortunately isn't available any more via the BBC: https://w…

Not a carbon tax as such, but the supreme court in the UK recently ruled in favour of an activist lead challenge to stop Surrey County Council from ignoring the environmental cost,…

The full length video of his is definitely worth a watch, but if anyone's short on time, there's quite a good much shorter version focussing more on the hierarchy/alpha male side o…

Normalisation of Deviance? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ljzj9Msli5o

This drain, drain, faster faster is a question I've been keen to get to the bottom off as I live in an area covered by upcoming River Thames Scheme to help prevent flooding. As I'm…

Is this what happens nowadays when you sign up to a dating app? I mention this only slightly tongue in cheek: a) Because it is being argued by some as a good thing that you have an…