I’m always excited to announce that my take on that French classic, Chicken with 40 Cloves of Garlic, is #RecipeOfTheDay! Do make sure you have some good bread to go with it, though mashed potatoes could also be given serious consideration. www.nigella.com/recipes/chic...
The top 10 staircases of 2025: www.dezeen.com/?p=2276988
Jeanne Pallier in photo c #WWI #WHM26 #WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInSTEM
Jeanne Pallier French aviator, earned pilot's licence 1912. #WWI offered to fly for France, government refused. Founded le Club Féminine Automobile to provide 120 volunteer female drivers & 70 nurses for ambulances to transport injured from Front. d. #OTD 6 Mar 1939 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_...
10,000 tons of insects migrate across Switzerland per year, according to this cool preprint by @birgenhaest.bsky.social and his colleagues. 🧪 🪰 🦟
That's 21 billion insects, weighing the equivalent of 50–65 blue whales, flying overhead. 🤯
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Just learned that paperclip in #French is trombone. I will have to sit with this for a while.
1930s Loterie Nationale posters by Edgar Derouet and Charles Lesacq via domusinluna.tumblr.com/post/6706147...
absolutely no way i wasn’t going to import this from reels
Fearing for her safety, Lisette Model buried her photos of artists like Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong, but a new book reveals them to the world.
In a first, researchers film treetops glowing during thunderstorms
A glimmer sparked by electrical fields has been detected in nature for the first time.
Learn more: https://scim.ag/3OGhOlM
There’s a lot to hate about AI. But what if there was a mindful way to use it?
A PBS News graphic asking, "Have you retired and then returned to the workforce?" prompts viewers to fill out a form as part of reporting.
Have you retired and then returned to the workforce?
We want to hear from you. Please fill out our form: https://bit.ly/3UeMObS
Glob-glob! Absolutely magical sea anemone larva (about 7 mm) from The Lombok Strait, Indonesia 🇮🇩
Chart of trends in recovered organs from circulatory deaths
The number of organs available for donation has risen massively in the past five years.
It seems to be the result of technological advances in preserving organs after circulatory death.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
A Kingfisher painted onto a 1970s Bulmer’s Cider Zodiac drinks mat (Aquarius). Beermat painting. Watercolour.
darrenhaymanart.com
72 femmes de sciences pour la tour Eiffel - white text on grey shape of the tower. front cover of the report
In January 2026 Paris' mayor Anne Hidalgo announced names of 72 women scientists proposed to be added to 72 male scientists already engraved on the Eiffel Tower. The Association Femmes & Sciences was tasked with preparing a list of 72 women scientists since 1789. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
This is a godsend technology for anyone in a wheelchair or otherwise mobility restricted.
It's marketed to elders and elder care facilities because nobody would spend money to make disabled people's lives comfortable.
Everyone is disabled if they live long enough.
When I have the strength (post launch fatigue is real), I will write about how working on Relooted has made me a better writer, thinker and person. I'm so very proud of the work we've done.
Commuters on the Omnibus, 1864. Demonstrating that manspreading is a problem as old as public transportation! By Honoré Daumier, born OTD 1808.
Chinese scientists have built a highly sensitive blood test that can detect tiny traces of lung cancer long before a tumour shows up on a scan. The convergence of three technologies, DNA nanotechnology, CRISPR, and quantum dots made it possible to spot. buff.ly/Uignyg4?
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How do we know what’s morally right? Many philosophers argue that we are products of our environments. But how do people know to take morally right actions against the rules of their communities? Those ‘going-against-the-grainers’ can give us rich new insights into morality
Fun to remember that the dad of the Brontës was just a weird Irishman whose surname was actually Brunty, but he changed it up to be fancy.
Slightly blurry photograph (sorry) of a six-foot high stone wall perpendicular to a row of terraced houses. A yellow fire hydrant sign is affixed to the wall above a handwritten NO PARKING which is applied directly to the stone in white paint, below this is the Solid street sign.
One of Huddersfield's more unusual street names. According to local historian George Redmonds, Solid derives from 'soliht' meaning a place "growing with willows" in Old English
Colourful network of ripped pink tape and green paper over snatched fragments from magazine pages
Invocation for Spring
#collage #handcut #papercollage
The go-to treatment for appendicitis has always been surgery. But a new study suggests a less invasive option: antibiotics. https://scim.ag/3ObRJee
In a River a Thousand Streams, a large mosaic mural I designed at London Bridge Station, photo by @gardnergareth.bsky.social
#Rotterdam
Going back to 1995, the US has never performed worse compared to international stocks YTD Augur Infinity
In 1990, 82% of the world’s tallest 100 buildings were in North America.
In 2025 that’s dropped to 14%
62% are in Asia
All of this data is from the CVU: www.skyscrapercenter.com/trends-and-f...
After a storm last week the sand stripped from the beach to reveal a 40 cm long iguanodontian dinosaur foot cast originally from the shores of a 120 million year old lagoon (Vectis Formation). #IsleofWight #FossilFriday
In the 1970s, this tiny medieval church faced the prospect of demolition. Thankfully we saved it from that fate and it is now cared for by an active and loving group of volunteers.
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