I wrote about why the Future Library in Norway is a statement of hope amid difficult times
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Writer & editor: BBC Future | Author: The Long View: Why We Need To Transform How The World Sees Time (Wildfire,2023) | Substack: The Long-termist's Field Guide
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like statistics? [yes I do!], like treasure? [of course!], like goblins? [well, hang on a min...I'VE GOT YOU ON p23
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as is p202
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Just received my book's draft index... p286 is a good page
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Hankley Common is nicer than Hell, would recommend
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Last year my wife and I stumbled on these creepy symbols and a film crew during a hike in Surrey. The crew told us enigmatically it was "a fantasy series for a major streaming platform". Now I know - it's Episode 4 of The Sandman, and this is Hell!
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Some pics from the set of #TheSandman . This could be literally anything but I'm so excited. 
Source: getsurrey.co.uk/whats-on/whats
Source: getsurrey.co.uk/whats-on/whats3
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Some professional news, as they say:
Look at HER! My book "Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains" is available for pre-order! bethanybrookshire.com/pests/
Quick, get it before it's cool.
Am I mildly in love with the cover? Yes.
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In the US, only 19% of owners let their cats roam outside; in the UK, it's 74%. Such a striking cultural difference
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It still doesn't explain the code...but it's possible it was notes for betting on horse-racing, not spy stuff!
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The mystery of the Somerton man, found dead on an Australian beach in 1948 with enigmatic poetry and an uncracked code, may have been solved
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Long-term scientific research alert!
A proposed probe to interstellar space consisting of “a mission expected to last at least 50 years, requiring three or more generations of scientists�?
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Some inspiring advice about how to get the best from Twitter: some of which I follow already, some of which I'm working on!
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I've changed somewhat how I use Twitter, and Twitter has changed, but a fair bit of this is still true, about how I use Twitter: twitter.com/michael_nielse
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If you have the time, great read on clocks and evolution of time keeping.
"Historian Lewis Mumford once noted, it was therefore the clock, not the steam engine, that was the most important machine of the Industrial Revolution"
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Great to see Toby launching his newsletter here. I was lucky to have his help as an RA on my book - researching, drafting, fact-checking over many months - so looking forward to following his philosophy writing. Do consider subscribing!
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I'm trying to write more, so I've started a blog! It'll be about effective altruism, and exploring what philosophy is and does. If you are interested, here is the first post: raisingdust.substack.com/p/welcome-to-r
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Delighted to be invited as a "guest of honour" to this v cool party... sadly it's not until the year 2269, but maybe I can go if I freeze my head. Thank you , ! 2269.co/guests-of-hono
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I'd forgotten we ran this story... "it’s likely that the archaeologists of future centuries will uncover peculiar objects in the graves of the millennial dead: silicone bags, plastic teeth and sculpted metal bones."
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What I’ve been googling: apparently pacemakers explode during cremation but breast implants turn to goo? bbc.com/future/article
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A close reader of my book proofs spotted that, during layout, the number 1058 had lost something *pretty* important. It should actually be 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.
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Almost every day, I pass the National Physical Laboratory on the time-pressed school run... so I figured I'd ask what they do inside. They define time itself!
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How is it, at age 41, that I feel like my body can do more — and that I can take more joy in it — than ever before?
I wrote about the quiet joy of aging into athleticism:
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The gummy squirrel, newly discovered in the Pacific's Clarion-Clipperton Zone (not far from the Krusty Krab)
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An excellent article about the latest science on allergies in children from - I learnt a lot
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Who sees an ammonite? (@leafdoctor) twitter.com/Xavi_Bros/stat…
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Credits: Kara Stenberg & NASA/ESA/CSA/Judy Schmidt
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Deep time spirals, earth and space
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Up until the 1820s, many Americans believed tomatoes were poisonous - or at least unappealing as a food. That changed when they began to be marketed medicinally
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Eg if you happen to live near Richmond Park like me, extraordinary to see that it was possible to skate on the lake during the Big Freeze of 1963
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The BBC Rewind site has this neat feature where you can browse a map to watch BBC archive footage filmed near where you live - or anywhere else in the UK
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A clear, deeply informed post by on an often-discussed question: Is the world awful, much better, or not there yet? All three!
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An interesting anthropological essay by arguing that deep time can be a source of ill-being - for those who live among the cracks and fissures of past earthquakes in Mexico
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The thorny ethical dilemma of what to do with a human skull, should you happen to have one
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