Every second of free time you have ever had in your life was subsidized by the existence of the combine harvester.
09.03.2026 19:53
👍 1592
🔁 242
💬 31
📌 15
Every second of free time you have ever had in your life was subsidized by the existence of the combine harvester.
🧪 🇨🇭 #IgNobel awards come to Switzerland as US unsafe for scientists
#HoppSchwiiz
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
Bluesky - You won’t believe what the UKs defence attaché to the UAE is??
Sandy Sandilands! They send him to the land of sand!
Specific details about PLOS Biology's mandatory code-sharing policy
In support of #OpenScience, we routinely ask authors to openly share their #research #code before publication.
We are now formalizing this practice with a mandatory #code-sharing policy and clarifying what we mean by code sharing.
May be nice to cut-out the box for reference
plos.io/47dPeOW
🧪
Thousands of lawyers oppose jury restriction plan.
Govt wants to restrict the right to jury trials to reduce backlog of court cases.
Backlog caused by Tory austerity and cuts.
Need investment, not cuts in human rights.
Lost rights are hard to recover.
Germany’s culture commissioner, Wolfram Weimer, is acting like he's head of the Thought Police.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
That war that's almost over...
An oil refinery costs about the same to build per MW of energy output as a solar farm (about $0.5 million). But with the refinery you then have to keep paying day in, day out to pour oil into it.
Why rebuild refineries instead of building new solar instead? It makes no economic sense.
I have never drunk (eaten?) a "salted caramel mocha latte", and nor do I ever intend to do so as long as I shall, by the grace of evolution and biochemistry, live.
You may thank me both now and effusively for single-handedly preserving society.
At some times in Australia renewable electricity is literally, legally, financially, too cheap to meter.
If I were running a company, I would relocate to anywhere in the World that offered me free energy.
Thank God for that. This is the CORRECT RESPONSE.
It is nearly impossible to be analytically unbiased about the possibility of this. But trying, to the best of my ability, to completely ignore my revulsion at dropping bombs on people, I really do think that this is the most likely outcome, by far.
The statistics are interesting. About 20% of people raised in religious households abandon religion. About 30% of people raised in atheist households adopt a religion. And around 25% of adults have no religion.
One and a half million people are killed by animals every year. Almost one million by other animals, and more than half a million from direct conflict among ourselves.
Almost all of these deaths from other animals are caused by just two types: mosquitoes and snakes.
Meanwhile, Spain's massive investment in renewables is paying dividends now: with prices for Spanish industry and consumers low and stable compared with other European economies.
www.ft.com/content/ac77...
Not least how it seems to take about fourteen hours for an admittedly a bit blown up U-Bahn train to go about six kilometers across Berlin.
More insects and mice as the weather warms?
Plus: check out the side effects...
Two countries -> two separate war aims.
Christ! Read a book, already.
Why is there never anything down there that looks cuddly?
i am mad as a waterlogged rooster I actually don’t know how mad that is but it sounds like a lot
This was astounding back in January. And props to conductor Delyana Lazarova too.
Sadly no longer on iPlayer. How about putting it back for IWD, @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social ?
i like how doorknobs wait until you’re really irritated before they catch your belt loop
Asked my Amazon echo to play John Cage and the bloody thing just ignored me for nearly five minutes.
Fantastic Voyage.
The failing centre that this so eloquently describes is just like the previous failing centre of Ted Heath and Harold Wilson in the late 1970s. Then Margaret Thatcher was the external force that replaced it. But it could just as easily have been Tony Benn.
@labourlewis.bsky.social
Just fascinating to see Blair, a man whose reputation was ruined by the Iraq war, advocate joining a war that is exponentially stupider and more chaotic. How is it possible to learn nothing from the worst mistake of your life?
