Dr Ian McCormick

wokestudies.bsky.social

21 October 2026 07:25

"Oxfam identified 23 superyachts owned by 18 billionaires and estimated the average annual carbon footprint of each of these yachts to be 5,672 tonnes. For an average citizen of the world it would take 860 years to produce the same amount." www.theguardian.com/news/2026/oc...

Jim Al-Khalili

jimalkhalili.bsky.social

21 October 2026 07:24

The fact that our latest and most ambitious Unbaffled video yet, on quantum chromodynamics and discovery of quarks and gluons, has had 0.5M views in its first 4 days confirms what I’ve always suspected: there’s a real appetite for this stuff: youtu.be/fRa8gDCBTLE Thanks for so many +ve comments too.

The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL)

themerl.bsky.social

21 October 2026 07:24

we don't have a #BirdOfTheDay with little legs, but we do have this comparable sheep for your consideration

Kevin Brown

kevin-brown.bsky.social

21 October 2026 07:24

José Ortega y Gasset was perhaps hard on his contemporaries when asserting that “people call themselves ‘young,’ because they have heard that youth has more rights than obligations, since it can put off the fulfilment of these latter to the Greek Kalends of maturity.”

Kevin Brown

kevin-brown.bsky.social

12 October 2026 17:17

With the current escalation of conflict in the Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, Saudi Arabia & Straits of Hormuz, this would not have been a good time to sail those seas so it was just as well my lecturing gig on Nautica was cancelled - happy memories of that ship in the Far East in 2019.