Colin BealeOct 6, 2023

The Storm Petrel’s larger cousin is the Fulmar & they have just as interesting a #CuriousTales to tell. Just like Storm Petrels they spend their lives on the sea and 500 years ago their European breeding range was tiny, restricted to a colony in northern Iceland & one on St Kilda in the far west of the Hebrides https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1098/rspb.2002.2322. That these #birds now breed all around the UK and into France is a remarkable range expansion. 1/5

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Ruth MottramDec 4, 2022
The always thoughtful @TimHarford's podcast #CuriousTales turns out to be one of my #spotifyunwrapped2022 highlights.
This one on #BlitzSpirit + the #BlackoutRipper
is particularly eye-opening ...
#GreatestGeneration.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4Y1mgS0NOHYlWbkPtPl3Kf?si=6cMRn7ZfTAy4HzOd2qiWQQ&utm_source=copy-link
Cautionary Conversation: The Blitz Spirit and the Blackout Ripper

Listen to this episode from Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford on Spotify. In a crisis most people respond with decency and solidarity. The bombing of British cities in the Second World War did not cause society to crumble as was expected, but proved instead human resilience. That defiant "Blitz Spirit" is still a source of pride for Britons... but have inconvenient facts about that time been ignored? Alice Fiennes (co-host of the podcast Bad Women: The Blackout Ripper) explains that the chaos and disruption of the bombing allowed some people to commit awful crimes - and especially a trainee RAF pilot who embarked on a vicious killing spree under cover of darkness.    Find Bad Women: The Blackout Ripper wherever you get your podcasts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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