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Le choux romanesco

Amazingfractal cabbage! I kid you not!

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Posted on 20th September 2001 Details

Yahoo: Super Ant Colony Found in Europe

Asupercolony of antshas been discovered stretching thousands of miles from the Italian Riviera along the coastline to northwest Spain.

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Posted on 16th April 2002 Details

The absolutely amazing camouflage capabilities of ...

The absolutely amazing camouflage capabilities of the octopus.

Linked on 5th July 2006 Details

Peak Oil gets mainstream and hits the pages of Nat...

Peak Oil gets mainstream and hits the pages of Nature magazine.

Linked on 5th January 2007 Details

Very moving story about the threats to great apes ...

Very moving story about the threats to great apes in the Congolese jungle.

Linked on 12th August 2007 Details

“After spending a few minutes on a crowded city st...

“After spending a few minutes on a crowded city street, the brain is less able to hold things in memory, and suffers from reduced self-control”

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Posted on 4th January 2009 Details

The Bucket

This is very soothing, I could watch it for hours…

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Posted on 16th May 2017 Details
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Added on 7th June 2019 Details

Why plants don’t die from cancer.

This quote says it all:

In a way, the Chernobyl disaster reveals the true extent of our environmental impact on the planet. Harmful as it was, the nuclear accident was far less destructive to the local ecosystem than we were.

Linked on 1st July 2019 Details

The modern hermit.

First he was never for a moment, in all 27 years, bored. He was never lonely. He said that he felt almost the opposite of that. He said he felt utterly and intricately connected to everything else in the world. It was difficult for him to tell where his body ended, and the woods began. He said he felt this utter communion with nature and with the outside world.

In a world where people start thumbing phones in queues, trains and anywhere else they fear being alone with their thoughts, this would probably be torture. I'm not ready to head into the woods for 27 years but I increasingly enjoy being untethered from the grid.

Linked on 19th July 2019 Details

Splendid isolation

I came to a clearing in a forest by a riverbank in Dartmoor national park, far enough from any trail that it seemed unlikely I would encounter anyone while I was there. I gathered some loose branches and stones and arranged them in a circle of about 10 metres in diameter, and then I walked into the circle and did not leave it until the same time the following day.

Great read on our relationship with time. I now have a wilderness solo on my bucket list although I doubt there are many places in over-populated Belgium where you can be really alone for 24 hours.

Linked on 9th February 2020 Details