Kate Nicholls

MasterClass | Ryan Holiday on Using Ancient Wisdom to Solve Modern Problems Make more meaningful conversation, overcome information overload, and build resilience. On MasterClass, Ryan Holiday, “The Daily Stoic” podcaster and No. 1 NYT bestselling author, shares how to solve ...

Introducing my students to Marcus Aurelius and the stoics has been eye opening.
They are astounded that voices speaking from across the ages are pertinent, personal and progressive.
Calm wisdom has never been more important.
#homeschool #education #philosophy

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This episode is Ezra at his finest. Balanced, calm, clear and very worried.

Analysis: Trump’s ‘right about everything’ rant offers no answers to a world on the brink | CNN Politics President Donald Trump, who holds the job once reserved for the leader for the free world, had no words of reassurance or poetic invocations of democratic values for America’s alarmed allies in an add...

Tylenol and now this nonsense! When Biden rambled like this he was ousted!

“We have a border, strong, and we have a shape, and that shape doesn’t just go straight up; that shape is amorphous when it comes to the atmosphere."

We have a shape that doesn’t go up⁉️🙋

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The fact he has to WALK up an escalator is news!
Karoline Leavitt, who said on X that any UN staff found to have intentionally stopped the escalator should be “fired and investigated immediately”.
He gets more and more dangerously ridiculous as the days go by.

School history lessons minimise the role of women, report finds Campaigners say key stage 3 curriculum plays to misogny and teaches a ‘false version of the past’

DNA and Rosalind Franklin for example!

It's why I wrote my book about the brilliant Maria Mendeleeva.
Her legacy reaches beyond her son Dmitri. Brilliant women have shone powerful beams that have been obscured by careless curricula and skewed storytelling.

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This is us. The only barriers are mountains, seas and rivers.
One planet. One chance. Multiple life forms that will survive us.
It’s humbling. It’s glorious. It’s home.

Carney touts trade opportunities with China, aims to meet with Xi U.S. protectionism under President Donald Trump has brought Canada’s need to diversify trading relationships into sharp focus.

When Trump puts up barriers they just go elsewhere.
America first is a flawed policy.
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The sun will save us Podcast Episode · The Gray Area with Sean Illing · 22/09/2025 · 47m

This is a somber, and also hopeful discussion. Well worth tuning into on your travels.

The politics of energy in the age of Trump, and how cheap, abundant power could transform not just the climate fight but democracy itself.

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Italy’s Meloni ‘not opposed’ to Palestinian statehood Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said Tuesday she is not opposed to recognizing a Palestinian state, on two conditions: that Hamas free all hostages

I wonder how long she will hold out.
Italians will not be slow in expressing their feelings on this matter.

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Politics latest: 'Don't pay any attention to Trump', says health secretary on autism claims Wes Streeting has said there is "no evidence" for Donald Trump's claim that there is a link between taking paracetamol and autism, and said the public should not pay "any attention whatsoever" to the ...

Perhaps we should get that printed on a tee shirt!

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When you’ve lived in tents the Okavango Delta for 12 years you learn a thing or two about 'making a plan'

Here is some classy bush plumbing 😂

Bill Gates pledges $912 million to global disease fight, urges governments to step up The Gates Foundation will give $912 million to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, philanthropist Bill Gates announced on Monday as he urged governments to reverse global health funding cuts.

Thank you Bill.

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Trump urges pregnant women to avoid Tylenol over unproven autism link Some studies have suggested an association between the two, but experts say there is no causal relationship.

His expertise on matters medical is unparalleled.
President Trump will be practising brain surgery next month ( I use the word advisedly) using lego and ping-pong balls!

One wonders what his mother ingested during her pregnancy to nourish such a mind.

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Thousands of Italian workers strike in solidarity with Gaza, causing disruptions across the country Thousands of workers and students across Italy have joined a general strike and demonstrations in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza

Travel was disrupted and it took a long time to get home today but the least one can do. Solidarity for the strikes was clear to see everywhere I looked.
Rome stood up for Palestine.
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Duchess of York dropped as patron of two charities over Epstein email One charity, Julia's House, said it would be "inappropriate" for the Duchess of York to continue as a patron of the charity. It comes after it emerged she wrote an email apologising to paedophile fina...

However, on the tax payers dine, her brother in law the King hosts Trump, a man who befriended Epstein, is a felon and has been accused of sexual assaults. It’s a crazy upside down world!

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What recognising a Palestinian state actually means Sir Keir Starmer has announced that the UK will recognise Palestine ahead of next week's United Nations General Assembly. Here's what the decision means.

I’m glad the UK has recognised Palestine but it’s come too late for Labour to regain my vote. I’m done with the party I have stood by for my entire adult life.
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Less camp, more conservative - welcome to Russia's alternative Eurovision "Intervision" is Putin's idea, so don't expect a celebration of sexual diversity and LGBTQ+ rights. Oh and don't ask about Ukraine...

Well there you go! The USA will be represented in Russia’s version of the Eurovision song contest!
I think that says it all 😂 🎤 🕺💃

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Sir Keir Starmer set to announce formal recognition of Palestine as a state The prime minister said in July his government would make the move if Israel failed to meet a series of conditions.

Finally!. Embarrassingly late but finally! Now what? More faffing about and placating or will we protect the people of Palestine!

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Sir Ed Davey brands Elon Musk a criminal and calls for his arrest for 'allowing online harm to children' The world's richest man was accused of inciting violence by several politicians after telling a rally last week, "violence is coming to you".

Well Ed has grown a pair. No messing around here!
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Charlie Kirk DM’d me before he was murdered. Here’s what he said. | CNN Politics The day before he was horrifically murdered, Charlie Kirk sent me a direct message on X.

This interview is a respectful summary of the principle Kirk espoused 'we can disagree agreeably.'
This principle shared by Kirk, Klein, and Van Jones.
It is the civilised way forward.
I disagreed with what Kirk said, but not with how he said it.
We need to talk.

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For anyone doing homeschool or who has an interest in biology and genetics this is a fabulous interactive site developed by the University of Utah. It is clear, engaging and well structured. My students love it.
learn.genetics.utah.edu

#homeschool #education #science

Thanks for posting this fascinating article.

Cutting funding for science is dangerously short sighted!

"We need to study a much wider catalog of solar behavior if we wish to understand the dynamics of our wild, beautiful star"

Congratulations Dr Taheri. A fabulous achievement.

YouTube video by TED TED Explores: Food for the Future | TED Countdown

Such a cool little documentary: it packs a punch. Just watched this with one of my younger students and she loved it. it’s brilliant how seriously the young are taking climate change and taking imaginative action.
#homeschool #soil #education #climatechange

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Good idea but the link needs to be adjusted.

I clicked on the link? Not quite the advice I was hoping for.

Yes this is happening to me too. Lots of AI generated spam emails offering PR and when I decline they get very narky!
Nothing sinister and I block the emails but they are annoying.

a man with a beard wearing a yellow shirt that says " everybody makes mistakes " ALT: a man with a beard wearing a yellow shirt that says " everybody makes mistakes "

Yikes being flooded by spam AI driven PR proposals for my book published in 2019! I’m assuming the algorithm is targeting books low on Amazon.😂 When the offer is politely declined the emails get rude very fast. 😂😂 A human might need to tweak the algorithm. AI has a way to go bless it!

Gravitational-wave detection verifies Stephen Hawking’s theorem Ten years have passed since the historic first detection of gravitational waves

Oh the wonder of this. Amid all the mess and misery science cleanses the soul.

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Scientists just made CRISPR three times more effective Northwestern scientists have developed a new nanostructure that supercharges CRISPR’s ability to safely and efficiently enter cells, potentially unlocking its full power to treat genetic diseases. By ...

Riveting article.
.."how we design the delivery vehicle is just as important as the genetic tools themselves. By marrying two powerful biotechnologies -- CRISPR and SNAs -- we have created a strategy that could unlock CRISPR's full therapeutic potential."

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