New Zealand now has a giant hornet infestation. I am not exaggerating when I say that the country has one one season and one season only to stop this. A billion dollar spent would not be too much at this point. If the insect becomes permanent the damages will be enormous.
The Conversation
NZ now has a narrow window to stop the Asian yellow-legged hornet – here’s how everyone can help
Two-dozen Asian yellow-legged hornet nests and queens have now been found on Auckland’s North Shore. Speed and more resources will be crucial.
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Mike Chitty at Yorkshire Bylines speaking common sense on culture and belonging and quoting Oswald Spengler as well.
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The cost of chasing capital: how our cities are forgetting their own
Focus on private foreign investment is killing local enterprise, an organic renewal of homegrown business leads the way forward
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Life needs boundaries: “Those countries in Europe which are still influenced by priests, are exactly the countries where there is still singing and dancing and coloured dresses and art in the open-air. Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground. Christianity is the only frame which has preserved the pleasure of Paganism. We might fancy some children playing on the flat grassy top of some tall island in the sea. So long as there was a wall round the cliff’s edge they could fling themselves into every frantic game and make the place the noisiest of nurseries. But the walls were knocked down, leaving the naked peril of the precipice. They did not fall over; but when their friends returned to them they were all huddled in terror in the centre of the island; and their song had ceased.” ― G.K. Chesterton
“The Cartesian tabula rasa is perhaps the greatest philosoph­ical lie of all time. It is in any case the one whose application weighs most heavily on our own time.” — Regine Pernoud, Those Terrible Middle Ages, 1975 https://hell.twtr.plus/media/b1550d2ceee9cb655a387bea224ce73a0982b7df3b1df25ba50d76eda93e9edf.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/31add45bf7f534630f899a91d7be504c71ef6b3fec7c58e11c98122848c67750.file
RT @KirkegaardEmil@twitter.com: How did the Icelanders get so strong? Well, for 100s of years, it appears wages on fishing ships was linked to physical strength via the lifting heavy stones test. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/bd8c39e58d10555dc148e593e3720cc5960c82b23eb32ad28130373230bef871.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/5b5ac4cb50b5af454cd198d8d1f038261ae804ada80e59a9fcc588a62dc42e92.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/04455e5acdf7ddfba1542c9ae337ba9091e4703d593addb6cf825cc4022c6498.file
On the merits of erosion in rammed earth. An extremely well presented and researched niche subject in earth architecture from architect Tobias Helmersson.
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Tobias Helmersson - CHALMERS SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
EXPLORING EROSION AND PIGMENTATION OF RAMMED EARTH Introduction Rammed earth is an ancient building technique consisting of compacted earth (clay, ...
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Another good reason to not use lead ammunition in hunting: inevitably eating lead fragments. Make the switch to copper and steel now.
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New research reveals tiny lead fragments in hunted meat pose health risk - Canadian Light Source
Synchrotron X-rays show particles far tinier than previously shown and in concentrations exceeding levels set by human health agencies
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Best study I have seen so far on what cause the deforestation of Rapa Nui / Easter Island and how the moai were shaped and transported.
The Conversation
Drones, physics and rats: Studies show how the people of Rapa Nui made and moved the giant statues – and what caused the island’s deforestation
The mysteries of Easter Island, subjects of speculation for centuries, yield to scientific inquiry.
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Six key areas that help us reduce household food waste, according to City St Georges in London. However, from experience, the closer a person is to their daily food source the easier it gets to cut food waste to zero: Human scaled towns and cities. https://www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/2025/november/reducing-household-food-waste
Onomichi has magic topography. I am glad they made the most of it, at least in this street corner. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/174ddbf436a02ec7d2ba26a40e349d753c0ba16eb7c1d725eff2d8fa632a54cf.file