(Yes. I have published peer-reviewed papers in biological journals. I know that ovaries are also gonads.)

Rightly is she called Nads.

Except they need to buy the best and latest Ukrainian weapons, not outdated American ones.

"Let's make a poison fashionable!"

"Err. OK. But how poisonous is it?"

"Incredibly! There's enough in just ten cigarettes to kill a non-smoker."

Average new UK electric car price is now lower than petrol vehicles Autotrader says average EV cost is £785 cheaper, in an important milestone in the move away from fossil fuels

Forget "total cost of ownership." In the UK, the average EV is now cheaper than the average ICE vehicle, up front. Sticker cost.

And of course the savings just keep accumulating after that.

Ex Machina

I was in my mid thirties before university security let me park in the university's staff car park because they always accused me of being a student.

I have no reason to resile from this opinion.

Those whom the gods love...

Sigh
The technical achievement here isn't the speed, it's the motion. Mechanical running is hard

Modern cars have so may warning lights and beeps that, if you didn't ignore them, you would only drive about twenty meters.

They're the ultimate boy who cried wolf.

I Hacked This Temu Router. What I Found Should Be Illegal. YouTube video by Low Level

This is fun* - Getting to a root shell on a $5 wifi router.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ksiu...

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* I acknowledge that you and I may have a different idea of fun in some areas...

The "Ridiculous" Traffic Plan That Actually Worked YouTube video by Streetscapes

If you are a Councillor, please watch this.

It happened nearly 50 years ago in the Netherlands. The arguments against restricting traffic were the same as those made today and were proven to be wrong.

Many cities would greatly benefit from a circulation plan.

youtu.be/bgKokpZMFnU?...

EU: The European Union will require sale of mobile phones with “user-replaceable and longer-lasting batteries” starting in 2027.

The regulation demands “availability of spare parts and manuals for 10 years to curb planned obsolescence”.

How does this Palantir statement comply with the NHS's procurement requirements for suppliers to have "diversity and inclusion strategy and associated equality outcomes". See, for example,

www.nhsgoldenjubilee.co.uk/publications...

Their NHS contract should be terminated on those grounds alone.

plural...

I am absolutely letting that duck in

Check out this 6 bedroom detached house for sale on Rightmove 6 bedroom detached house for sale in Sandford Lane, Hurst, Reading, Berkshire, RG10 for £2,200,000. Marketed by Savills, Henley-On-Thames

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It's sort of a cliff-edge. I'm standing on the edge, hating it. But it wouldn't take a big shove for me to fall and find myself loving it on the way down.

Then there are the rocks and waves at the bottom...

WORLD VIEW 15 April 2026 Why more fossil fuels won’t fix the Iran energy crisis Climate-friendly technologies are the best way to stymie rising inflation — and will get better and cheaper over time. By Gernot Wagner Spend any time discussing solar and wind power as a solution to climate change, and you are sure to encounter someone who asks about reliability. The Sun does not shine at night and the wind does not always blow, so fossil fuels will be needed forever as a back-up, they argue. But how reliable are fossil fuels? In the past two months, conflict in Iran has created an energy crisis — the latest in a series. Oil prices spiked within days of the start of US, Israeli and Iranian bombing in the Gulf region on 28 February. Fuel prices remain high and volatile, and the ripple effects are set to increase inflation in the coming months. Isabel Schnabel, a member of the European Central Bank’s executive board, memorably named this effect fossilflation in the aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022. There was, and is, one clear winner: renewables and other low-carbon technologies, from batteries to electric vehicles (EVs) and heat pumps. That is what distinguishes this Middle East oil and gas crisis from the Arab oil embargoes of the 1970s. Then, renewables were mostly unavailable, and industrial decarbonization was on few people’s radars. Solar power cost at least 500 times more than it does today, and EVs, heat pumps and induction stoves were a pipe dream. Ditching fossil fuels is not all smooth sailing. In 2022, European natural-gas prices spiked to ten times their levels before the Ukraine invasion, resulting in long waiting times for solar panels and heat pumps. Prices for these rose as demand outpaced supply, an effect Schnabel dubbed greenflation. She used a third term, climateflation, to describe the economic effects of climate-induced weather extremes, such as food-price rises from crop failures (M. Kotz et al. Commun. Earth Environ. 5; 2024).

The Iran War has once again led to a bout of what @isabelschnabel.bsky.social memorably dubbed 'fossilflation'.

It's en vouge to talk about the solution as some massively complex undertaking. It really isn't. Get off fossil fuels faster.

My latest just out @nature.com

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Gary Drostle has been creating site specific art since 1985 and teaches and writes on mosaic. His fish pond mosaics make use of briliant trompe L’oeil design and create an actual illusion of floating fish with shadows.

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Two hooded figures with lamps approach a moonlit, isolated cottage. A woman answers the door. We have come for the child, says the hooded figure So soon? she asks It is time, says the hooded figure. The woman is distraught. We should never have got him a library card! What is done cannot be undone, says the hooded figure We couldn’t see the harm! We just wanted him to enjoy reading! For most, it ends there, says the hooded figure, turning away and walking into the wilderness Oh lord, What have I done! says the woman, the child walks past her and out into the darkness with them. Do not cry mother. I am a writer now.

my latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Art is a form of time travel. It instantly makes us acquaintances with people who have been dead for 2,000 years. I cried when I first read Martial's lines on the death of the little daughter of a friend:

Earth lie not heavy upon her,
For she trod but lightly upon you.

...Speak, listen and laugh more and the World will be a better place.

... for everyone to take everything far too seriously. If you are on the right you will be taking immigration too seriously. If you are on the left you will be taking capitalist AI too seriously. If you are in the centre you will be taking the right and left too seriously...

...People now text rather than phone. We read more about the World online rather than listening to it on TV (or radio).

Add this to the facts that writing is forever, whereas speech used to be evanescent, and that forever means lawyers and cancellation, and you have a cumulative incentive...

...punctuation; CapiTalisation and so on can't hope to match.

I am about to ascribe all the Worlds ills to this.

Human communication is becoming mores serious and less funny as we switch from being a talking and listening species to being a writing and reading species...

It is very difficult to be funny when writing. Some do it superbly of course: the late Clive James, Dave Barry. But the fact remains that it is harder to write funnily than to speak funnily, because when we speak we can pepper what we say with non-verbal cues that mere, ...
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