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But Prof George Nash, of the University of Liverpool and Coimbra University in Portugal, believes we should guard agains...
17/02/2023

But Prof George Nash, of the University of Liverpool and Coimbra University in Portugal, believes we should guard against judging Buckland too harshly.

"In 1823 the science of archaeology was very much in its infancy," he said.

"There was no careful stratified removal and recording of artefacts, great quantities of material were just hoiked out of the ground and dumped in a massive jumbled pile by unskilled labourers.

Nearly 2.5 miles (4km) of new hedgerow and banks were also being planted as part of what the trust said was its first ma...
16/02/2023

Nearly 2.5 miles (4km) of new hedgerow and banks were also being planted as part of what the trust said was its first major community woodland in Britain.

The trust said the variety of species gave the woods its future-proofing, giving it "the greatest chance of surviving changes in climate and any future tree diseases" by having "the right trees in the right place".

John Deakin, head of woodlands at the trust, added: "We are in the midst of a biodiversity and climate crisis and need to do all we can to provide more space for nature and store carbon across all National Trust land."

The Scottish government said it had taken into account those concerns but found the scheme to be acceptable.It ruled tha...
15/02/2023

The Scottish government said it had taken into account those concerns but found the scheme to be acceptable.

It ruled that it could go ahead with a number of conditions attached.

Statkraft said the project could generate enough electricity to power the equivalent of 60,000 homes.

Senior project manager John Wallace said: "We worked hard to ensure that the wind farm was in keeping with the existing landscape and surrounding developments, and look forward to working with the community to deliver benefits and investment in the local area."

Esa is seeking funds from its member nations for a research programme it calls Solaris, to see if these developments mea...
14/02/2023

Esa is seeking funds from its member nations for a research programme it calls Solaris, to see if these developments mean that it is now possible to develop spaced-based solar power reliably and cheaply enough to make it economically viable.

"The idea of space-based solar power is no longer science fiction," according to Esa's Dr Sanjay Vijendran, who is the scientist leading the Solaris initiative,

"The potential is there and we now need to really understand the technological path before a decision can be made to go ahead with trying to build something in space."

Scientists had previously thought that Oldowan tools, a kind of simple stone implement, were only used by ancestors of H...
13/02/2023

Scientists had previously thought that Oldowan tools, a kind of simple stone implement, were only used by ancestors of Homo Sapiens, a grouping that includes our species and our closest relatives.

However, no Homo Sapien fossils were found at the excavation site in Nyayanga on the Homa Peninsula in western Kenya.

Instead, there were two teeth - stout molars - from the Paranthropus genus that had combined ape-like and human-like traits, along with 330 stone tools.

In Alderney the wildlife trust will hold a Winter-Walkover across Platte Saline towards Hannaine Bay, involving a beach ...
08/02/2023

In Alderney the wildlife trust will hold a Winter-Walkover across Platte Saline towards Hannaine Bay, involving a beach clean and the mapping of invasive species, with discussions on climate change.

The Ramsar site is home to "internationally important populations of seabirds", a seal colony and a "highly diverse marine ecosystem," a spokesperson for the trust said.

"It looks like women were working in the tilery as well, so it's not as clear cut as we thought," Mr Gilmour said."The w...
02/02/2023

"It looks like women were working in the tilery as well, so it's not as clear cut as we thought," Mr Gilmour said.

"The workers were not just young male slaves - these markings show there were literate men and women in nice shoes as well, so it was more of a mixture.

Speaking to BBC Radio Cornwall, he said: "I knew that they'd been around over the past few days, and I just decided to s...
27/01/2023

Speaking to BBC Radio Cornwall, he said: "I knew that they'd been around over the past few days, and I just decided to set out in the morning and go up to Pendennis Point in Falmouth to take a look.

"I waited there for a little while, had a coffee, couldn't really see anything going on, there were a few people sort of watching and looking out for them, so I did like a first flight with the drone and then had a good look around and I couldn't really see anything."

The discovery, which included evidence of Roman and Iron Age settlements, was made at Wintringham near St Neots, Cambrid...
23/01/2023

The discovery, which included evidence of Roman and Iron Age settlements, was made at Wintringham near St Neots, Cambridgeshire.

Dating from 2,500 years ago, the site will feature in the latest series of BBC Two's Digging for Britain.

Patrick Moan from Oxford Archaeology said the find had "revealed amazing insights into the people" of the area.

The work comes ahead of a development of about 2,800 homes in the village.

All of these invisible pollutants need to be taken into account. Hanna Nuutila, a marine ecology researcher at Swansea U...
04/01/2023

All of these invisible pollutants need to be taken into account. Hanna Nuutila, a marine ecology researcher at Swansea University, Wales, says it's vital to appreciate the cumulative effect of different stressors and pathways to disturbance. "Disturbance is both physical such as in-water structures (that includes every single coastal and offshore construction from oil and gas platforms to windfarm piles, harbours and marinas, and renewable energy structures) but also mobile in terms of ships, ferries, tankers and luxury cruisers," she says. She adds that all marine renewables are having to undergo much more detailed scrutiny in terms of impacts on wildlife than oil, gas and nuclear ever did.

"Obviously fishing too causes not just entanglement but also decreasing prey availability. All these tend to have a noise effect as well while most also leak oil, organic waste or chemicals into the sea." Nuutila emphasises the need to create designated safe zones free from human disturbance and the Marine Mammal Protected Areas Task Force runs a global initiative to create just that, in the form of Important to Marine Mammal Areas.

One survey found that one in 10 students in the UK are vegetarian, which is twice as many as the general population. Die...
27/12/2022

One survey found that one in 10 students in the UK are vegetarian, which is twice as many as the general population. Diets with low or no meat have been associated with health benefits, although the overall healthfulness of a vegetarian diet depends on what foods are eaten instead of the meat. The same survey also found that a quarter of students eat convenience foods most, or every, day.

Another study concluded that only one in five students have "favourable eating behaviours", which includes moderate snacking, consuming little fast food and eating a lot of fruit and vegetables.

Researchers have also found that students are more likely to gain more weight than people their age who don't go to university.

To make the Christmas pudding, first I add soaked raisins, sugar, self-raising flour, breadcrumbs, allspice, margarine, ...
22/12/2022

To make the Christmas pudding, first I add soaked raisins, sugar, self-raising flour, breadcrumbs, allspice, margarine, rum, and some finely chopped dried figs to a mixing bowl. I don't have any of the latter, so I substitute in dried apricots, and – spurred on by this stroke of culinary genius – throw in a half-eaten packet of flaked almonds that was lying around in the cupboard.

Then I grate an apple into a kind of mulch, trying my best to ignore the increasingly insistent nudges of the small black rabbit by my ankles – who can smell it from across the room. Once this has been added to the mix, it just needs to be packed into a greased pudding basin. I don't have one of these, and buying one just for this recipe would tip the emissions off the scale – so I use a regular ceramic soup bowl instead. The whole lot is wrapped in layers of foil and baking paper, and immersed in water in the slow cooker. It's set to low, and left for 10 hours.

The director has even put his name in the stop-motion film's full title, Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio, which is fair e...
19/12/2022

The director has even put his name in the stop-motion film's full title, Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio, which is fair enough, as it could be the quintessential Guillermo del Toro production. Its eerie magical creatures appear to be relatives of those in 2004's Hellboy, and the conflict between an unconventional protagonist (Gregory Mann) and a spiteful government official (Ron Perlman) echoes the conflict in The Shape of Water (2017). "We made it clear from the beginning that this movie was of a piece with The Devil's Backbone and Pan's Labyrinth," says del Toro, referring to two of his earlier horror fantasies, which brought together the supernatural and the Spanish Civil War. "I made it clear [to Netflix, which financed the film] that I'm not making this for kids, I'm not making it for the soccer parents. I'm making this for myself and my team."

With Sherald's expansive and consistent oeuvre in mind, it is no surprise that she was chosen to portray both Michelle O...
14/12/2022

With Sherald's expansive and consistent oeuvre in mind, it is no surprise that she was chosen to portray both Michelle Obama and Breonna Taylor in recent years. Historically, White House portraiture has been very white, both behind and in front of the canvas or camera. "The Obamas were the first black president and first lady to inhabit the White House, and they themselves were under a magnifying glass for the entirety of the administration," says Sorkin, explaining that the Obama family were scrutinised more intensely than their white counterparts, and subject to extreme racism. "Selecting a black female portrait painter to represent Michelle Obama, a black woman in the White House, is a huge boon in terms of showcasing representation that previously didn't exist."

"With shifts in social practices and lifestyle, the practice of Kantha began to wane," folk-arts curator Nandita Pal Cho...
09/12/2022

"With shifts in social practices and lifestyle, the practice of Kantha began to wane," folk-arts curator Nandita Pal Choudhuri tells BBC Culture. "In west Bengal, pioneers such as Srilata Sarkar and the Crafts Council of West Bengal began its revival with small groups of women by replicating traditional designs from the Gurusaday Museum that had been collected by Gurusaday Dutt, an Indian civil servant who travelled across villages in undivided Bengal between 1929 and 1939. While the Crafts Council continued to produce only high-quality authentic objects, a whole new set of entrepreneurs began to emerge who repurposed the kantha embroidery on to garments and lifestyle products. Now, kantha-embroidered products are accessible at a variety of qualities and prices across India."

"At every step, people on Sark are allowed to choose how we live," Lieutenant Colonel Reginald Guille MBE told me. Guill...
07/12/2022

"At every step, people on Sark are allowed to choose how we live," Lieutenant Colonel Reginald Guille MBE told me. Guille was born on Sark during the island's German occupation during World War Two in 1942, left when he was 15 to join the Royal Navy, then returned upon retirement in 1997. "As far as we can, we live a traditional, rural life. We have a dairy, sheep farms, market gardens. And life does change, but it is changing at the pace we want it to. It's our island and we run it the way we want it to be run."

Chief among Sark's curiosities is that it has its own parliament, exchequer and set of laws and taxes. The UK government is still responsible for defence and international relations here, but the semi-autonomous island with its own United Nations country code (680) is a defiant outlier – it was the last feudal state in Europe, only dismantling its almost 450-year-old feudal system of hereditary government to allow for better democratic representation of its 500 residents in 2008.

Examples of this interplay between earthworks have been found repeatedly by archaeologists. According to Lepper, that me...
05/12/2022

Examples of this interplay between earthworks have been found repeatedly by archaeologists. According to Lepper, that measure of 1054ft, whether halved or doubled, is found in other indigenous earthworks across the country, and served as a common unit of measure.

While the Hopewell Culture's geometrical and mathematical knowledge astonished scholars, another level of sophistication appears when the layers are peeled back further: astronomical alignment.

In the 1980s, two professors at Earlham College in Indiana, Ray Hively (a physicist and astronomer) and Robert Horn (a philosopher), decided to pay a visit to The Octagon and its attached Observatory Circle. As astronomical monuments like Stonehenge had received great attention, they wondered if these earthworks were also aligned to a solar calendar.

Hively and Horn found no solar connections, but they then considered an alternative purpose: the lunar cycle.

Tiankeng means the "The Heavenly Pit", and its sheer sides plummet to a veritable netherworld that's home to a thriving ...
30/11/2022

Tiankeng means the "The Heavenly Pit", and its sheer sides plummet to a veritable netherworld that's home to a thriving ecosystem of some 1,285 plant and animal species – including the rare gingko and clouded leopard. Aside from its vast size, the formation is also unique in that it's a double-nested sinkhole holding two craters joined by a sloping edge. In the rainy season, a waterfall cascades from the mouth of the pit, feeding an underground river and cave network at its base.

While locals have known about the sinkholes for centuries, it was only "discovered" by the outside world in 1994, when British explorers attempted to survey its maze-like underground cave system. Despite attempting to map the underground river five times in a 10-year period, speleologists found the gushing torrent too difficult to navigate and the team never succeeded. As a result, this deep, dark underworld remains one of China's great geological mysteries.

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