David HoSo we’re gonna shoot mirrors into space and put a 100 km-long underwater curtain in Antarctica before we ban private jets?
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Cardiff, Bikes, Madrid...in that order. Former member of Gwladrugby's Platinum lounge.
Helen CzerskiOOH. On a ferry on the Sognefjord in Norway and AIS tells me this car ferry we just passed is the Ampere, the world’s first battery electric car ferry. It’s been operating in this fjord since 2015. 1000kWh Li-ion battery, aluminium hull, takes 120 cars.
The earthworms in North America are invaders. There used to be native earthworms, but they were wiped out by glaciers around 10,000 years ago and all the current worms arrived accidentally (via humans) from Europe and Asia in the past few centuries.
https://ecosystemsontheedge.org/earthworm-invaders/
And now global warming is causing “global worming”, as worms spread northwards into a warmer Arctic:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/14/climate/invasive-worms-arctic-environment.html
The consequences aren’t clear yet. But it’s a lot of change.
Jillian HurleyI have been asked to stop using the word MANSPLAINING.
It probably is time to be more politically correct.
In the future I will be using the clinical diagnosis CORRECTILE DYSFUNCTION.
You’re welcome.
Simon Brooke"The electric bicycle is a game-changer, much more significant than the overhyped, expensive and insufficiently green e-car: global sales of e-bikes are projected to reach 40 million next year, compared to 9 million for electric vehicles. Globally, most trips are less than 10 kilometres, which e-bikes can cover within half an hour."
H. MinchinTIL there were guide dogs in medieval Europe!
This image from a 13th century French manuscript in the British Library shows a blind man being lead by a dog.
Hooray for Dr Krista Milna, who researches this topic and has just been awarded a grant to do more!
The War on CarsEPISODE 108: "Traffication with Paul Donald." Cars ruin more than cities — they also ruin nature by fragmenting habitats and creating a barrage of threats to animals of all kinds. What do cars and roads do to living things and what can be done?
Available wherever you get your podcasts!
https://thewaroncars.org/2023/07/18/108-traffication-with-paul-donald/
"Lawmakers on Wednesday approved a bill that calls for the cars of people who exceed the speed limit by more than 60 kilometers per hour (37 mph) in developed areas or 70 kph (43 mph) outside town limits temporarily confiscated. Repeat offenders could have their vehicles permanently confiscated and auctioned off"
“There are no dirt paths , no mountain roads … SUVs are absolutely useless in Paris. Worse, they are dangerous, cumbersome and use too many resources to manufacture."
This is a pretty cool article on Welsh references in Nintendo games https://www.nintendolife.com/features/donkey-kong-cymru-the-extremely-brief-history-of-welshness-in-nintendo-games
