They are not pollinators generally regarded as pollinators (thanks Jeff Ollerton for reminding me that some do visit flowers for nectar), but they are not crop pests and nor are they vectors. We don’t eat them and most of them most are not biological control agents. Bittacids are, howev...
In 1988, Charles Kuralt discovered a story of heroism that would have disappeared from history were it not for the determination of a former Russian prisoner who vowed to thank the men who saved his life and the lives of many of his comrades. During the 40 years of the Cold War, Dr. ...
"Plenty of times I wanted to haul off when somebody insulted me for the color of my skin, but I had to hold to myself,” he recalled. "I knew I was kind of an experiment. The whole thing was bigger than me.” This Getty Images photograph captures Robinson signing his contract with...
What a pleasure it is to curl up with a book, or take one with me on travels, or speed read a book because I can’t put it down. This year I began listening to audiobooks, after having so much fun narrating my own. I’m still not back up to the 52 books a year pace but m...
Chaos, is not what concerns me however. Rather the opposite – we seem to be experiencing a type of highly organized, authoritarian liberalism which is invading the private lives of every Scottish citizen. Now, like in the Third Reich, children will have a closer relationship to the state tha...
By Manchester's Finest | Last updated 13 January 2021 Share this story I’m sure like me you’re bored shitless at home and looking forward to watching this fresh batch of UK talent show the world why UK drag is so bloody good. While it’ll be filling the void that live...
A few years later, the producers enlisted screenwriters Lucinda Coxon and Nick Drake to adapt “If It’s Not Impossible…: The Life of Sir Nicholas Winton,” a 2014 biography of Winton written by his daughter Barbara Winton. She gave her blessing to the...
I was forbidden to go downstairs to the bar alone of course, but when all the whooping and hollering and yodeling started I would creep down the stairs far enough to watch all the fun until mom or Momma Meyer caught up with me. A not so wild night down in the bar When dad was...
Marianne, just days after I wrote you the Lord gave me this verse to pray continually: “Father forgive them, for they know not what they do.” Doing this gives us a holy covering and allows us to take the higher ground. I use this for both past hurts, and present hurts or offenses...
If we already are part cyborg, as some technologists believe, there is a cyborg version of me, a digital ghost, that is still getting married. The real me would really like to move on now. The thing it became was not at all what it was at the beginning, which is something that can...