The First WORLD FENCING LEAGUE is happening April 25th!!! I'M GEEKING!!!
Japanese engineers developed this "Sword Tip Visualisation" tracking technology specifically for this event that will make it so much easier for the average person to see what's going on!
I MUST WATCH THIS ENTIRE TOURNAMENT
Enjoyed Simon Armitage and LYR doing Guernica Jigsaw on Front Row www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoLI...
A super El Niño - or "Godzilla" El Niño - could make 2027 the hottest year on record
open.spotify.com/episode/5kY7...
Not now, “Godzilla” El Niño
With me, @pennysarchet.bsky.social and @alecluhn.com
m.youtube.com/watch?v=97ve...
A warning: with The Story of Birds coming soon, I'm going to be very annoying with constant PR & marketing posts. Even more annoying than usual.
In an effort to blunt the narcissism, here are some books from other writers (yes they exist) that I've greatly enjoyed recently!
What a picture. Caravaggio-vibes.
I spoke with Britain's first astronaut, Helen Sharman, about:
🌖The race to the moon
🌔The Artemis accords
🌑Life at the lunar south pole
🌜Nuclear reactors on the moon
🈷️And more!
youtu.be/d9NR-wy5GSs
"Rahmstorf, who has studied the Amoc for 35 years, has said a collapse must be avoided 'at all costs'. 'I argued this when we thought the chance of an Amoc shutdown was maybe 5%, and even then we were saying that risk is too high, given the massive impacts. Now it looks like it’s more than 50%.'"
Selection accelerated since the transition from hunting and gathering to farming
PWC estimated that the lunar economy could be worth 100s of billions of dollars. We discuss with astronaut Helen Sharman open.spotify.com/episode/0AwB...
I spoke with Britain's first astronaut, Helen Sharman, about:
🌖The race to the moon
🌔The Artemis accords
🌑Life at the lunar south pole
🌜Nuclear reactors on the moon
🈷️And more!
youtu.be/d9NR-wy5GSs
Meanwhile my own oak bonsai is unfurling. Young leaves are red from protective anthrocyanin (to repel herbivores)
Wasp queen, just emerged from hibernation! If you see a big (2cm) wasp it’s probably a queen looking for a place to start a colony.
Drama and mixed emotions in Hammersmith. The long-term male (Tom) has been ousted (maybe killed) by this new male. Tom has been here for 10 years and even I have known him for 6. @fabperegrines.bsky.social
Where are your stripes Roger!
AMOC collapse looking more likely. Our podcast m.youtube.com/watch?v=yNhZ...
A BONSAI ginkgo tree! Not seen a bonsai one before, love it.
A reconstruction of a Neanderthal based on the fossils from La Chapelle-aux-Saints in France. He is a man with pale skin and a broad nose, shoulder-length hair and a beard. He's looking straight at the camera. Credit: S. Entressangle / E. Daynes / Science Photo Library
I tried to make sense of all the conflicting data and ideas about the origins of the Neanderthals, for @newscientist.com
www.newscientist.com/article/2522913-are-nean...
😂
Is that an image of you trying to figure it out?
Looking forward to meeting Suzanne Simard today!
Bluebells in my front garden. They have poor root systems, and rely on symbiotic mycorrhizal fungi to do the job of scouting for nutrients. From my book Togetherness (now available for pre-order!) www.penguin.co.uk/books/459006...
They lay eggs in spider eggs!
Ha - commander Reid Wiseman reported “four green crew members” - in NASA parlance that means 😍 not 🤢
Nasa administrator Jared Isaacman called the astronauts “almost poets”. Respect to poetry! #artemisII
Ten Neanderthals got their genomes sequenced (this is not the start of a joke!) open.spotify.com/episode/4Nu1...
The other cool bird I’ve seen a few times in the Alps is the three-toed woodpecker (it’s lost its thumb) (not my pic)
Another brilliant example of DNA-led palaeontology m.youtube.com/watch?v=dhSe...
Ah I enjoyed that one
