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The following long article about Timothy Snyder is in today's Guardian.

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This was on the Scientific American site today:

​How the Gun Became Integral to the Self-Identity of Millions of AmericansThe firearm as a totemlike symbol of personal identity emerged from the...

Fly away home: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116329/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Float: https://floatdocumentary.com/

The Pilot: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14303882/

Thank you Andrew that is really helpful and interesting

john

This was in the Guardian yesterday: When will Putin give up Ukraine? Only when his inner circle forces him to stop....

^ Yeadon is right, of course

But if I was going to name a car (or ship) Iain Banks starship names are a delight.

Clear Air Turbulence
Irregular Apocalypse
So Much For Subtlety
Just Read The...

Several years ago some friends were building a boat in a shed in Edinburgh. The lights went out. Someone had stolen the generator. They called the boat Jenny Skylark.

The following is from Prof. David MacKay's book Sustainable energy without the hot air. You can download it here: https://www.withouthotair.com/
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An interview with Timothy Snyder in this mornings Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/28/russia-wins-by-losing-timothy-snyder-on-raising-funds-for-ukrainian-drone-defence

Two films, The first was shown to me by a German friend who's father walked several hundred miles from Poland to escape the advancing Russian Army at the end of WW II. He was eight. She tells me that...

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His name was Zig, he was not mine but he was my friend. He never fell in and he was smart, you could ask him where his owner was and he would take you to her. Sometimes I would think he was...

57 deg 56’ N and 16.20 today. I tried rebelling once but got very very confused.
With absolutely no medical knowledge I'd vote for double summer time, I quite like getting up in the dark.

Storm tracks will shift N (and S) see:

Poleward expansion of tropical cyclone latitudes in warming climates


https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-021-00859-1

You can download the paper...

Thank you for #949 Nicholas


The following is saying something similar, I think.


QAnon and the plot to break reality. (A series on BBC radio 4 last January that is being repeated.)


The...

I was up at five this morning helping a friend winch an Albin Vega up the beach and a steep slope into his garden and am too sleepy to work and too overdosed with coffee - brewed several times by my...

That wiring is a horror

Fine homebuilding magazine runs a column about lessons learnt (and disasters) contributed by builders: Great moments in building history. The magazine did not sell well in...

Nitrate fertilisers have made sustained high crop yields possible. Thus the Haber-Bosch process is the single most important factor that enabled global population to increase from 1.6 billion in 1900...

I am not an expert on sea ice though I did once fly to 89 degrees north in the met offices C130 so I have thought about this.


Sometime in the not too distant future the arctic ocean will be more...

The work I have done is all connected with the earth system and the climate so I have read all the IPCC reports and several thousand other reports, papers and books. That does not mean that what I...

The following was in the Times this morning. I've not seen it reported in any of the other papers I look at. Washington Post, Guardian, FT, WSJ, Le Monde, etc. so I don't know if it is correct. (The...

Freeman Dyson write a report that explains why the use of tactical nuclear weapons in the Vietnam war would not have helped (and would have run the risk of escalation)

Freeman J. Dyson, R. Gomer,...

In the Science journal newsletter today: Big covid 19 waves may be coming...
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Its turtles all the way to the bottom so the correct answer is 3.14 m + 2 x infinity

Thank you Andrew and Tom for bring Timothy Snyder to my attention. Book ordered

The following provides useful estimates for the limits to energy saving that are possible
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/49747269_Reducing_Energy_Demand_What_Are_the_Practical_Limits
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This is a good and needed report. I don't read it as saying that our predicament is hopeless only that the transition will be difficult, take time, and demand that we make compromises.

The...

I looked up the report summarised in the talk, you can download it here https://www.gtk.fi/en/time-to-wake-up/downloads/.

'I don’t see justice in this war’: Russian soldier exposes rot at core of Ukraine invasion

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I don't think there is much hope, humanity has chosen to ignore the warnings that have been given to us.


So I have been waking up for forty years knowing that I am living in a dying world and...

The following article was in yesterday's Science journal newsletter

Half of Americans anticipate a U.S. civil war soon, survey finds

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Raining in Ullapool this evening. I'm very glad I'm not in the south!

Home from the first part of helping a friend sail a Vancouver 27 he bought in Southampton to Ullapool and glad to have...

Here is a link to the UN report that predicts collapse is likely

https://www.undrr.org/gar2022-our-world-risk#container-downloads

John

For all bilge rats looking for a constructive understanding of and some ways out of the right wing authoritarian trap

The following is from the BBC radio 4 series Spark

Karen Stenner and the...

I have been lurking in the bilge for several years because there are smart thoughtful educated people here who are worth listening to.


But I have been wondering for the last few days if I should...

Disclaimer I have not been bought any bacon rolls to write this.

I watched them build it and drove the photography boat and it seems to me a nicer boat than the flying 15. It sails beautifully...

Everything said so far is good advice.


I found using 10 l plastic jerry cans for water works well. They can be filled easily, are easy to carry and clean.


Insulate the boat and have zero...

I'd like to see some pictures and I'm sure I'm not the only one. The wooden boat magazine has run many articles on model making so you will be following an honorable tradition.

I hope the following helps

The RNLI have an archive here: http://rnli.org/aboutus/historyandheritage/Pages/archive-and-collections.aspx I think if you email them they will have the plans for the...