Here: Top row left to right: eastern box turtle, pancake tortoise and Bell’s hingeback tortoise. Middle row left to right: radiated tortoise, Florida box turtle and Burmese star tortoise. Bottom row left to right: spotted turtle, Bourret’s box turtle and European pond turtle. For me, the bottom row is a bit of an anti-climax, but … Continue reading Colourful turtles and tortoises
The latest Patrick Crozier Brian Micklethwait “podcast” is up, although I prefer “recorded conversation”. Our subject was … well, basically some thoughts that were provoked by my recent lung cancer diagnosis, and by Patrick’s recent experiences as a carer (see first comment from Patrick) of a dying mother. But, we did a lot of tangenting, … Continue reading Patrick Crozier and I talk about death – and lots of other things
Every so often, this blog attracts a flurry of attention from some mysterious other place that I am typically not clever enough to identify, and today this is happening again. The posting that is today attracting a stampede, by my very modest standards, of hits is one I did way back last October, about Jonathan … Continue reading Four of BrianMicklethwaitsNewBlog dot com’s greatest hits
Friday, so: animals. Obviously, I noticed this story about dogs with the superpower ability to smell prostate cancer in a blood sample a lot sooner than prostate cancer tends to be noticed now. However, I especially liked this other story – well, a tweet – about beavers, which was accompanied by a map of Europe: … Continue reading Sniffer dogs and beavers – both doing well
South Bank, London, 2012: Closer up: Same thing, 2017: Closer up: I have a vague recollection of this contraption having suffered some kind of accident or mishap which might have explained this transformation. But the only accident I managed to learn about today was one that happened in 2016, by which time the semi-transparent encasement … Continue reading Health and safety: Before-and-after photos of the South Bank carousel
Came across this in the New York Times, New York being where this double sculpture is to be seen, or was in January of last year: The internet wander that took me to these sculptures began with the Diamond Geezer, who, in this posting, says: Mon 16: A sculpture of a dog and a rabbit … Continue reading A dog and a rabbit photoing in New York
Even as I write, they are showing a Premier League soccer game on the telly, and more to the point, at the BBC Website. Which means I can go back and watch goals without all the tedium in between, and also pause things, when instead of blokes just kicking a ball, they show something more … Continue reading A new Fulham stand (and a very good Spurs win)
On the left, the winner of the Mary Wollstonecraft memorial competition. On the right, the runner-up. I learned about all this from Mick Hartley. Here‘s what Hartley says about the Maggi Hambling winner, and here‘s what he says about the Martin Jennings runner-up. My only strong opinion is that the Maggi Hambling one looks so … Continue reading The Mary Wollstonecraft Memorial: The winner and the runner-up
A new restaurant is opening up in Tel Aviv: At a new restaurant in Tel Aviv called The Chicken, the chicken on the menu is grown from cells in a bioreactor in an adjacent pilot plant visible through a glass window. Diners don’t pay for their meals; instead, SuperMeat, the startup making the “cultured chicken” … Continue reading It looks and tastes like conventionally-produced chicken
I still think that this earlier posting here was right about the direction that British public opinion is moving on the subject of lockdown, but I was clearly wrong about how far it had already changed and how much further it has to change before lockdown is done away with. Mea culpa. Bubble thinking. The … Continue reading How politics and sport are spreading the truth about Covid