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Myfanwy
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(Photos are mine)
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Two stages of writing:

1) This shouldn't take too long
2) Oh no
December 4, 2024 at 7:36 PM
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Wisdom the Laysan albatross lays new egg at 74 years old after finding new mate
#nature
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...
World's oldest known wild bird, an albatross named Wisdom, lays egg at 74
Wisdom the Laysan albatross lays another egg this year at the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge in Hawaii with a new mating partner.
www.abc.net.au
December 5, 2024 at 12:58 AM
The Forest 🍃
December 5, 2024 at 1:27 AM
“Farmers, conservationists cheer after 750,000 trees planted to help save threatened native bird”

"It's certainly made a difference — we've created shelter belts for the local flora and fauna as well as shade for our stock, which is especially important in summer."

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Farmers, conservationists cheer after 750,000 trees planted to help save threatened native bird — ABC News
John Paul Murphy is not an ecologist, but he knows a thing or two about trees.
apple.news
December 2, 2024 at 9:27 PM
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conformity
#forest
November 27, 2024 at 7:23 AM
Snakey swim 🐍
#WildOz #snake
November 25, 2024 at 11:16 PM
““The irony wasn’t lost on us that we were having to meet in secret when this is a book about people being forced to do things in a clandestine way in the past in Britain because of the rise of the National Front or other countries because of repressive regimes,”

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Anti-racism campaigner’s London book events cancelled amid threat of far-right violence — Guardian Australia
Freedom of speech groups alarmed after events to promote book by Hope Not Hate employee are called off
apple.news
November 23, 2024 at 9:20 PM
“It’s the first artificial heart that can keep a heart-failure patient alive without a human heart and without a pulse.”

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‘SpaceX’ for heart surgery: Australian invention comes to life at home — The Australian
The first Australian patient has been implanted with Brisbane-born Daniel Timms’ groundbreaking artificial heart in historic cardiac surgery.
apple.news
November 23, 2024 at 9:03 PM
💚🍃💚
November 21, 2024 at 11:04 AM
The calmness of the swamp
November 21, 2024 at 3:42 AM
Green Seas today 🤍🩵
November 21, 2024 at 3:41 AM
Pregnant Blacksnake out sunning herself 🐍
November 21, 2024 at 3:38 AM
Easy solutions to keep our immune compromised people healthy.

“Measures include diluting and disinfecting contaminated air, ­filtering rooms and regulating dispersion.”

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Patients argue unfiltered air promotes ‘discriminatory’ public spaces — The Australian
Disability advocates could sue schools and workplaces that fail to provide safe and clean air, with patient groups calling for government intervention.
apple.news
November 19, 2024 at 10:51 AM
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Good news with bobcats in the process of a large-scale recovery in the US, with numbers rebounding from almost zero in 1900 to several million today.
news.mongabay.com/2024/11/bobc...
November 17, 2024 at 4:28 PM
“Wells’s novel The War of the Worlds is pivotal to the narrative. Do you remember the first time you read it?

#Novelist Richard Flanagan - “I was staggered to learn in Wells’s introduction that it was inspired by the extermination of Aboriginal Tasmanians”
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Richard Flanagan: ‘I’m not sure that I will write again’ — Guardian Australia
The Tasmanian novelist – whose latest book, Question 7, is up for both fiction and nonfiction prizes – on HG Wells, the TV adaptation of his Booker prize winner The Narrow Road to the Deep North… and ...
apple.news
November 17, 2024 at 6:50 AM
Lakeside
November 17, 2024 at 1:58 AM
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Life of a scientist
November 15, 2024 at 11:47 AM
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Time in nature heals all wounds ❤️‍🩹
November 16, 2024 at 5:39 AM
“…unexpectedly, rats had an intense motivation for their driving training.” 🐀

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These Rats Learned to Drive—and They Love It — WIRED
Driving represented an interesting way for neuroscientists to study how rodents acquire new skills, and unexpectedly, rats had an intense motivation for their driving training.
apple.news
November 16, 2024 at 9:35 PM
Skinny Bluetonque Skink trying to keep warm. 🦎
November 16, 2024 at 9:24 PM
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Book pages should be numbered backwards so we’re always counting down how many pages we have left
November 15, 2024 at 12:31 AM
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I don't know who needs to hear this, everyone I think, but if you send a PDF to your kindle and put 'convert' as the subject it will change it to epub format for you, you're welcome

(I posted this on the other place and was surprised by how many people it helped so thought I'd do it here too.)
November 15, 2024 at 10:30 AM
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inspiration
November 15, 2024 at 6:40 AM