This just appeared in the toilet at work.

I confess. Numbers 9 and 10 gave me pause for thought, 9 because a single towel isn’t capable of drying my hands without falling apart, and 10 because ... well, because. But 11 is immensely reassuring.

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Start: 95.4 Last week: 87.0 This week: 88.0

I wanted to write something else, but haven’t finished doing the homework.

The Economist's Green View has a fascinating piece that offers a fascinating by-catch from Copenhagen: reduced fishing. Globally, fishing is a disaster.

Landlubbers hand po...

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I went to an event billed as an “Aperitivo biodiverso”, upstairs at a very fashionable winebar in the heart of fashionable Rome. Laid on by an NGO that works with indigenous people in Ecuador and Peru, it was full. Three young women at a table took my 10 euro contribution. I fought my way through to...

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If you're a fan of Gary Trudeau's Doonesbury and not a gardener, then you probably saw these strips earlier this month and maybe chuckled.

If you're a gardener and not a fan of Gary Trudeau's Doonesbury then you probably didn't see these strips.

But if you're a fan of Gary Trudeau's Do...

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Maybe Grant McCracken is right. Maybe a new set of adverts for Levi's that use the words (and voice!) of Walt Whitman do show that “[a]dvertising has taken up what Whitman thought was the poet's job”. McCracken explains:

I think it is thrilling to see these meanings circulating in our culture,...

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