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Blue Man i th Moss
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Cerrig Meibion Arthur - SW stone
(Stones of the sons of Arthur)
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Lessons in Creativity from Rick Rubin: Focus on Your Art, Not the Audience If you've heard Run-D.M.C.'s Raising Hell, Rage Against the Machine's self-titled debut, Johnny Cash's American Recordings, or Adele's 21, you've heard the work of Rick Rubin.

Lessons in Creativity from Rick Rubin: Focus on Your Art, Not the Audience

Happy days!

New finds in Turkey's southeast add to picture of Neolithic age Turkey unveiled dozens of new finds at a major archaeological site in southeast Turkey on Wednesday, giving fresh insight into an area seen as showing humanity's transition from hunter-gatherers to se...

Discoveries revealed at the UNESCO World Heritage Site at Gobeklitepe and Karahantepe near Sanliurfa, Turkey, are giving archaeologists new understandings of how humans transitioned from hunter-gatherers to settled societies more than 11,000 years ago. www.reuters.com/science/new-...

Shame about the vignetting.

Cerrig Meibion Arthur - NE stone
(Stones of the sons of Arthur)
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Stone projectile points with serrated edges in comparison with perforated shark teeth, also serrated.

Lithics called Maros points characterise assemblages of the Toalean hunter-gatherer group, who occupied south-west Sulawesi 🇮🇩 c. 8000-1500 years ago.

Their similarity to perforated shark teeth suggests a possible link between the two technologies.

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Stop the water stitch-up! Stop the stitch-up! The Government wants to push through water legislation, locking in a failed privatised system for decades without giving the public a say. I’ve signed the petition to stop this wa...

I just signed a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition: Stop the water stitch-up!. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/st...

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The Carney doctrine Open comment thread on the PM's Davos speech

Mark Carney's speech really is terrific: full text is here and very much worth your time.

Compare & contrast. This is Trump’s demand for Greenland. And this is Hitler’s for the Sudetenland.

There is no difference. The language. The unstoppable need to dominate. The megalomania. It’s the same.

And Keir Starmer’s response is appeasement. We are in that moment.
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Water firms could be let off pollution fines as part of government overhaul Exclusive: Campaigners claim changes will let companies ‘off the hook’, as government prepares to unveil new white paper for water industry

This is worse than a joke.

You can’t effectively regulate a profit-first system. We’re throwing good money after bad and not even tackling the root problem.

Any solution that doesn’t involve public ownership is a waste of the public’s time and money.
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The West Report on Instagram: "Palantir CEO Alex Karp has just said the quiet part out loud. Speaking to retail shareholders, Karp describes Palantir’s purpose as helping the West “scare enemies” and... 9,124 likes, 1,198 comments - thewestreport on January 9, 2026: "Palantir CEO Alex Karp has just said the quiet part out loud. Speaking to retail shareholders, Karp describes Palantir’s purpose as he...

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Bryn Rhyd
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My photo shows a slightly ovoid-shaped tool knapped from yellow-tinged rock crystal. It is mounted for display against a grey background. Described as a scraper (racloir) by the Musée d’Archéologie Nationale, it measures 6 x 3.3 x 1.5 cm. It was recovered from a Mousterian (Neanderthal) level in the Abri Des Merveilles rockshelter in France. The rock shelter was excavated by the American School of Prehistoric Research for a number of seasons from 1924 onwards, led by George Grant MacCurdy who documented that this rock crystal tool (and six others) were excavated from the lower level of the shelter together with a lithic assemblage (flint handaxes, scrapers and points) identified as Mousterian i.e. associated with Neanderthals. He suggested the original source of the rock crystal was some 90 miles north of the Merveilles rockshelter “near to and beyond the headwaters of the Vézère in the direction of Limousin and Puy-de-Dome” He suggested the rock crystal was either brought to the cave, or was carried away from its source by the river Vézère and then picked up from the riverbed by neanderthals. The info label at the Musée d’Archéologie Nationale reads: ‘Neanderthals were the first to show their interest in non-utilitarian objects: collection and transport of fossils and minerals, use of dyes such as ochre or haematite, choice of aesthetic raw materials for cut tools, such as rock crystal from Sergeac or opal jasper from Fontmaure’

Something beautiful for the weekend! ✨

A rare rock crystal tool made by Neanderthals between 200,000 - 40,000 years ago.

From a Mousterian level at the Merveilles rockshelter, Sergeac, Dordogne, France. 6 x 3.3 x 1.5 cm.

Musée d’Archéologie Nationale, Saint-Germain-en-Laye 📷 by me

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There we are then!

YouTube video by Adrian Loone Ivor Cutler ‘Gruts for Tea’ from 'The Innes Book of Records' (HD)

Isadore "Ivor" Cutler. Born OTD in 1923, Govan, Glasgow, Scotland. Died 3/3/2006, London
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"Peter Thiel... the founder of this company, does not believe in democracy"

As the climate data for 2025 continues to be released, it's time to update various data visualisations.

First - the global climate stripes for 1850-2025. A third darkest red stripe is added.

The last 11 years have been the warmest 11 years on record. A sequence that is unlikely to be broken soon.

A painting of an interior scene with an easel. Overlayed text: A new window into Vilhelm Hammershøi’s paintings. New digital archive hammershoi.smk.dk

Danish artist Vilhem Hammershøi is known for his meditative interior scenes like this one.

Access to groundbreaking new research on Hammershøi's methods is now accessible to all on the National Gallery of Denmark's Vilhelm Hammershøi Digital Archive: hammershoi.smk.dk

UPDATED – Factcheck: How ‘scary-sounding numbers’ are being used to mislead the UK about net-zero | @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org

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Research from Welsh university says a global sustainability 'reset' is needed A scientist from a Welsh university is calling for a ‘systems reset’ in how sustainable development is understood and pursued following new research. The research from a global team of scientists and ...

A scientist from a Welsh university is calling for a 'systems reset' in how sustainable development is understood and pursued following new research

Lisadell
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China deploys new 1 MW Wind Turbine that can generate energy at $0.02 a KwH and is far more reliable because it operates at higher altitude.

Meanwhile moronic USA bans clean energy and has average electricity costs approaching $0.20 a KwH.

Uruguay’s Renewable Charge: A Small Nation, A Big Lesson For The World Uruguay built a power grid that runs 99% on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. Here’s how its bold energy overhaul became a global model.

“Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.”

Ocean Warming Breaks Record for Ninth Straight Year - Inside Climate News Every second of last year, the Earth’s oceans absorbed the equivalent in energy to 12 Hiroshima-sized atomic bombs.  Global ocean heat content (OHC) increased for the ninth consecutive year in 2025, a...

"Ocean Warming Breaks Record for Ninth Straight Year" | Great piece by Johnny Sturgeon of @insideclimatenews.org on our new ocean heat article: insideclimatenews.org/news/0901202...

Maen Myrddin
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Rapid expansion of ring-necked parakeets in UK sparks concern Bird organisations say more research on the species needed to control impact on other wildlife In the past 20 years, the soundscape in the ancient wild, rolling landscape of Richmond Park has been transformed. Once you would have heard the chirrup of the stonechat, the chirp of the greater spotted woodpecker or the song of the skylark. Today, the auditory power of one bird dominates. The bright green ring-necked parakeet increased 25-fold from 1994-2023 in the UK. They are still mainly based in the skies, parks, and woodlands around London and suburban areas in the south east, but in recent years they have made their way to northern cities including Manchester and Newcastle. Continue reading...

Rapid expansion of ring-necked parakeets in UK sparks concern