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David Howe
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Retired academic, writer of text and general non-fiction books, coast and hill walker. Current general non-fiction books include Rocks and Rain, Reason and Romance; Extraction to Extinction; Science and Sensibility; Gravity: life's ups and downs.
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TIL Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense in a Chipotle
City of Boston Streets CabinetWhat'd you do over the weekend? Public Works began resurfacing the street in front of the Chipotle where Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense
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I'm actually quite relaxed about celeb books - if they're good books and actually written by the person (or if there's a co writer credited) but the last para almost killed me. It's AI that I fear not celebs.
Doc Sarah LonsdalePrivate Eye hits the nail on the head
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"This is not a conflict. This is not a war. It's not an escalation of violence. It is intentional ethnic cleansing, which is entailing genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity" Francesca Albanese at the UN HUman Rights Council this morning. 🎯
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More than 130 charities & NGOs are calling for Israeli/US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation to be shut down Over 500 Palestinians have been killed while trying to get food since the GHF started operating in May, following Israel's 3 month blockade of Gaza www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Israeli, US-backed Gaza aid group must end, say 130 charitiesThe call from some of the world's top aid organisations and charities comes after reports of soldiers killing hundreds of of Palestinians at aid sites.www.bbc.co.uk
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A window view from space: Africa to the left, Europe to the right. -Credits: NASA
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Fancy a bit of sea breeze? Here's a selection of Norfolk coast walks from my 15 Short Walks in Norfolk, just published: www.cicerone.co.uk/explore-norf...
Explore Norfolk's Coast and the Broads with five of the best short…With few serious hills to contend with, walking in Norfolk is, on the whole, undemanding. That is not to say it is uninteresting, as it is surprisingly…www.cicerone.co.uk
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On May 29, 2025, atmospheric CO₂ concentration at the Mauna Loa Observatory reached 430.71 ppm. When I was born in 1991, the global average was around 355 ppm. A cataclysmic geological shift in just three decades, and no serious effort to « flatten the curve » here.
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Our feudal hangover
Guy ShrubsoleHappy St George's Day. A reminder that half of England is owned by less than 1% of the population. Some of these aristocratic landowners have inherited land since the Norman Conquest. England needs land reform and a strong Community Right to Buy! whoownsengland.org
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This: cumbriacrack.com/2025/04/23/l.... But you can all help by adding your name here: saverydalmount.org.uk
Leading actors and artists join forces to ‘save’ Lake District home of William Wordsworth – cumbriacrack.comcumbriacrack.com
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If you’re thinking about PG study and interested in literary, heritage, cultural & environmental studies, why not find out more about our MA Literature, Romanticism & the Lake District? You can join an online course talk by our programme leader on 30 April at 6pm: www.cumbria.ac.uk/events/open-...
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CO2 emissions going up links up with global mean temperatures going up, glaciers melting, rate of sea level rise increasing - as per newly-published WMO's State of the Global Climate 2024: wmo.int/publication-... Short video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApOt...
Glen PetersPreliminary data suggests that the global average increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration in 2024 will be a record. Not just a little record, but 25% higher than the previous record. (This is the global average, as opposed to Moana Loa) gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/... 1/
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