A great shot by Peter Stackpole of Ray Bolger on the set of Where's Raymond?, aka The Ray Bolger Show. The show ran on ABC from 1953-55.

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this is back up now. my five-part series for BBC Radio 4 about what the current information environment is doing to us and how we - as a species - got through the last two massive information crises: the invention of writing & the invention of printing

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when you accidentally write the most pro-Kamala post of the election

The swamp-dwelling ‘bald cypress’ is today’s #SpookyScience feature (and Louisiana’s state 🌲)!

The bald cypress is a pneumatophore, with roots growing just below the surface then protruding ⬆️ (believed to help the tree breathe). The tree’s “knees” don’t always look this spooky, but what a shot 📸 🧪

🧵Some real Jilly Cooper quotes from her Rutshire Chronicles, the series of books that Rivals is from.

1) "Her breasts swayed like party balloons when the front door opens"

Yes another outstanding piece of journalism by
Ceri Thomas and the team at @tortoise - this time on the Letby case. Before you decide to form an opinion on it, listen here: shows.acast.com/the-tortoise...

4. But while #flu is sickening more people, #Covid continues to make more people sicker. As these two charts show, more people are being hospitalized for Covid (right) & while Covid death rates are a fraction of what they were 2-3 years ago, Covid still kills a lot more people than flu (left).