My writing is not great.

Humans have a lot they could learn from wolves.

I have a dear friend who turned 100 this year and imagine how much the world has changed for her, during her lifetime! (PS...hi Noelene!!)

For clarity, this is a warning system that raises an alarm so that extra samples are taken and analysed in a lab (this is in addition to regular samples that are tested frequently, regardless of the sentinel clams). The fate of the Polish water supply is not dictated solely by all powerful clams.

People who romanticize the past should be required to watch the complete series of "Horrible Histories".

I expect the US version to be the opposite, since the folks in charge seem overly concerned about women having babies.

What happened in 1940? It went down quite rapidly after that.

Vintage style, not vintage values

People who romanticize the past should take off their rosy coloured spectacles more often.

All because we started washing our hands (it had something to do with it). The discovery of germ really started impacting us in the mid to late 1900.

Unfortunately that graph is for the UK. In several poor countries the rate is still very high.

Antibiotics were first widely used in the UK in 1946..

That's an amazing picture!!

O.K., Habsburgs, stop laughing.

Ugh. As a Canadian and a railfan....I just shake my head. They've been talking of plans to do something about this longer than Ive been dlive.

Welcome, eh!

To me thst looks like a field of grass or weeds.

Global trade goes back a long way.

There were other inter-connected networks by that time, going by various names and using various networking protocols, in Europe as well as the USA. That one is thought of as the precursor to the internet just by virtue of the way it set many ground rules for what would become TCP/IP, the backbone of the very much later World Wide Web..

Example of what's called "environmental determinism".

Wight is effected by the density of ingredients. For example, a place where I worked had a cafeteria that based the price of a salad on size of the bowl instead of weight. So I would pack in all of the heavy ingredients and then use them over the weekend for other dishes. It was cheaper than going to the grocery store.

Being born in the right place (and at the right time, for many) in essence means you’ve won the jackpot of life. We just don’t see it most of the time because we’re surrounded by other lucky bastards

Amazon-com seems to have similar reach

I find it crazy that in 2024 around 20% of people in russia have no indoor plumbing

This is why politicians should not be allowed to benefit from their decisions - being a landlord or owning company shares should bar you from public office. In Plato's republic, the lawmakers were the wisest people motivated by wanting to build a great society for all. Their needs were all met by the state, but they owned no private property.

I was astounded to see photos of "the great metropolitan Toronto" from the late 70s/early 80s. Aside from the CN tower (1976) it doesn't even LOOK like Toronto!

🕯 for people, from all countries, who have lost their homes or worse

Explains a lot

Did we really need the translation?

Love the side quests

Same as it ever was

yes, but I have more confidence in my walking skills than swimming

What determines where the solar system ends? Is this the radius of where the furthest things can be that orbit our sun? I'm surprised how populated the outer 'skin' looks, or is that just to help us visualise it?

TIL the cat I serve is a harlequin.

Is this correlation or causation? People who are able to dance are definitely feeling better than those who are unable (by dint of a depressive illness I mean) Maybe more research is needed??

Shows those languages that use the tens+units format, so each ten has the same shaped cluster, vs those that use the units+tens format. (i.e. twenty-one, twenty-two etc. vs one-and-twenty, two-and-twenty...)

That's a little misleading, shows the areas where wolves have been reported but doesn't give any true idea of how few there still are in those areas.