Hints and tips:
...CC: But, if you’re going to immerse yourself in the real world, and immerse yourself in nature, to then add a tech layer to it can feel a bit disjointed? JH: It’s a challenge....
...The charge is ludicrous: France remains about the least neoliberal place on Earth. Government spending in 2021 was 59 per cent of GDP, the highest in the OECD, the club of rich countries....
...Unfortunately, the nature of private funds means we don’t really know how these will have done! Several them own NFTs or NFT-adjacent companies — maybe that’s bad?...
...(Drax, which burns American and Canadian wood pellets in Yorkshire, last year received £893mn in UK subsidies.) Exhibit B is our relentless demand....
...(Hands up: I occasionally use a few aluminium sulphate slug pellets.)...
...I haven’t needed to use slug pellets since our frog population expanded. Frogs and toads crunch up baby snails like fortune cookies....
...My failures have made me appreciate how unconcerned nature is with our small attempts to domesticate it. How easily disrupted our fragile plans are when the earth has other ideas....
...For the slugs, wool pellets are best. You sprinkle the little furry pellets liberally around the plant, and water them well. They soon weld to form a mat that slugs do not like to walk over....
...The result is that researchers at universities like NC State are now getting their first chance to try the technology out....
...But entirely new techniques will be needed as the nature of the problems change. The limitations fall into two main areas....
...Then she showed shocking photos she had taken on uninhabited Henderson Island in the south Pacific, one of the most remote places on earth....
...Japanese start-up ALE, which has raised $6m from angel investors, plans to launch small satellites packed with pellets into space before firing them into the earth’s atmosphere to create on-demand meteor...
...And how on earth do we keep up with the latest “market-based” evolutions — not to mention the risks — if we can’t even agree whether a market-based lender is a shadow bank or not?...
...Their research, funded by the US Department of Energy, is published online in Nature, the science journal....
...Scientists have shown a new way in which the building blocks of life could have been created on Earth and elsewhere in the solar system....
...The question for the US economy, however, is this: if growth companies such as Apple and Amgen cannot or will not deploy capital, then who on earth will?...
...To show how he could have coped, Marsh is designing a pellet-making machine that will compress hay into mini-cubes to make optimum use of space....
...The nature of learning is different and what will work best for one student may not work as well for another....
...But the binary nature nature of the outcomes he describes — either glorious anarchy or massive repression — doesn’t even remotely fly....
...But where Constable’s theme is nature versus modernity and progress in rapidly changing Britain, Kobke, working in a country not yet industrialised, suggests no such conflicts....
...Children were present in droves at the press show for Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D....
...The point of these dreams of escape was to find somewhere left on earth that stayed cool and drizzled wonderfully every day. At last I have been able to suspend my fantasies....
...Into a discussion of “large-body impacts on the Earth’s surface” Boyle weaves a poignant meditation on the frailty of life....
...Also I wanted to get outdoors more and get a bit closer to nature,” she explains....
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