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[nature's footnote]: November 2014

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Wednesday, 26 November 2014. Which childhood ingredients create environmental heroes? Or: Things that made me think while reading Mary Colwell’s book ‘John Muir: The Scotsman who saved America’s wild places’). We talk often in nature conservation about young people and their apparent dissociation from the natural world. It’s yet another gloomy facet of the conservation paradigm. We are told of the “dangers of screen-time” and endless surveys* come out suggesting that. I support them (and so should you!

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[nature's footnote]: December 2013

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Friday, 27 December 2013. Enviro-balls 2013: the ten environmental quotes that made you want to stick your fingers in your eyes. I do accept climate change is happening and I accept the overwhelming evidence that it is manmade. But it makes no sense to close an aluminium smelter in the north of England that then opens in China. That doesn't help climate change at all. Britain wants to challenge climate change, but it can't be out there on its own.”. Said Osborne at the. Tory Party fringe meeting. 8220;Re...

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[nature's footnote]: April 2014

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Friday, 25 April 2014. TV REVIEW: George McGavin’s 'Monkey Planet'. Bit late this. I had hoped to review this a while ago but here’s a brief post on Monkey Planet, the BBC’s latest wildlife phwoar-gasboard… (on iPlayer. I’m actually a big fan of McGavin. Who wouldn’t be? Loved it. It was like some sort of PG-Tips Riddick. Get cold. Yep, thanks George. Got that. Of course, it was all very tasteful and well done (BBC-style) and there was no toilet. Diaries, obviously. And I understand why presenters ha...

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[nature's footnote]: June 2014

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Friday, 13 June 2014. GET AWAY FROM HER. YOU BITCH! Why is it ok to destroy ermine caterpillars? 8220;Someone’s cut them down! 8221; read the photo-message on my Twitter earlier tonight. There, in the photo (below), three fresh stumps stand dead beside the avenue, like chalk-lines in the pavement after the body-bags have left. And this was. A murder. This was. A slaughter. This was a mass-murder. Someone's cut them down! These weren’t your normal. From these trees hung hundreds of little hammocks each fi...

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[nature's footnote]: May 2014

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Tuesday, 27 May 2014. Springwatch celebrates ten years. So where next? In fact, that’s probably not the only Biblical comparison one can make with Springwatch. Over its ten years, there has been plagues (mosquitos), floods and a flood of idyllic Edens from which to film (many of which then flooded). And there has been prophets, namely Strachan and Packham, themselves no stranger to lonely days and nights in the wilderness; themselves resurrected. So how is the show, which resumed again last night, doing?

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Towards the transformation of humanity. Follow Blog via Email. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Join 132 other followers. How Jellyfish, Nanobots, and Naked Mole Rats Could Make Humans Immortal. June 18, 2016. 8220;This,” says Faulkes, “is a naked mole rat, though she does look like a penis with teeth, doesn’t she? After all, the race for immortality has a wide field. While humans already have a version of hyaluronan in our bodies that helps he...

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[nature's footnote]: January 2014

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Wednesday, 29 January 2014. The dead planet bounce: how big a risk is Osborne taking on the environment? 8220;0.7% growth in GDP is a boost for the economic security of #hardworking people. Our long term plan is delivering a brighter economic future,”. Tweeted George Osborne yesterday. Praise be to £od! It seems that the British economy is definitely expanding! In fact, The Guardian reported later. This definitely doesn’t look like a Dead Cat Bounce. So….I can only applaud. The coalition’s position...

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[nature's footnote]: Teachers: Looking for inspiring female scientists studying fossils and evolution?

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Friday, 21 November 2014. Teachers: Looking for inspiring female scientists studying fossils and evolution? This is a quick post for teachers looking for inspirational female scientists when teaching fossils (yr3/4) and evolution in primary schools (yr5/6) from 2014. Upon recently visiting a East London school with whom I’ve worked for a number of years I was surprised to be asked repeatedly by the pupils: “Do you know Dr Lorna Steel? 8221; (“SIR! DO YOU KNOW DR LORNA STEEL, SIR! So who is Lorna Steel?

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[nature's footnote]: Giant (house) spider invasion!!!

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Wednesday, 24 September 2014. Giant (house) spider invasion! It’s late September! It’s….SPIDER SEASON! And, hey presto, the usual collection of eye-rolling stories about “killer spiders” (cough… house. Spiders) have started to come from the skirting boards of Fleet Street, with plenty reporting on. Their enormous (and growing). 8220;GIANT SPIDER INVASION! Fantastical, as always. Maybe more so this year? The comment section speaks volumes. Here’s my favourite comment:. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).