The Eternal Doorman

They are still looking for volunteers to spend six months from January 2025 at the rainforest centre in Ecuador, teaching English. Apply here:  https://mossyearth.typeform.com/to/Li00hQ3i . Join the project at  https://mossy.earth . Subscribe to Mossy Earth .

I only heard about this guerilla campaign today. Subscribe to Led By Donkeys . Who Are Led by Donkeys? See  Who Eats Thistles Anyway? Subscribe to Al Jazeera .

See this BBC Travel writeup . Image credit: Michnus Olivier Those poor people who have to staff the customs post at Laguna Verde. It's been like this for decades! A small, makeshift booth with sheets of corrugated metal for a roof served as the immigration and customs office in the desolate, desert-like landscape separating south-west Bolivia from north-eastern Chile. ...

They’re raising funds for the Open Medicine Foundation https://www.omf.ngo/ . You can donate on YouTube : Subscribe to Physics Girl .

They have no front door. I am doing this course on Construction, paid for by the DWP, who have a programme specifically designed to get homeless and people at risk of homelessness, into the construction workforce. This is not working for "a man and a van laying patios" it's to get people working for the big contractors who do these city-centre renovation projects. When I heard that I immediately thought of this building in St. Andrew's street for the very grand-sounding  Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) , so I checked their web site and I found out that The Built Environment is a thing. What sort of thing? It turns out it's the sort of thing that landowners, property developers, investors, town planners and building contractors do! On that page I found this text: Who we work with and why Our multi-stakeholder approach engages influential individuals alongside businesses, governments, financial institutions and civil society representatives...

I had a dish of Spinach and Ricotta Canneloni at Bella Italia last night. The waiter gave me a £5 tip, so I reckon I owe them something. I don't understand how that business makes any money at all. Yesterday I was talking to an Italian about these recipes for Spaghetti, ... They're easy traditional recipes. What's the problem? Pizza is easy too: Subscribe to Aden Films .

For example, in 1959 they covertly funded an exhibition of American art at the Tate in London. See The New American Painting . Compare her historical analysis with that of the BBC journalist Santiago Vanegas:  La historia del deslumbrante tesoro Quimbaya que el gobierno de Colombia le reclama a España  with a lot of Getty Images photos. Coincidentally, the Gettys funded the tourist reception at the Tower of London, though you wouldn't think so if you read the Historic Royal Palaces web page . Sovereignty is a complicated concept these days. Ask Richard Dearlove . Subscribe to Julia Buenaventura .

At the Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, ... See also  Gregory Bateson - Photographs from Papua New Guinea .

He seems to have trouble distinguishing the successor and predecessor functions with respect to the ordered set of slides he is presenting, ... Subscribe to Harvard Philosophy Department .

Thistle is used to treat arthritis and IBS as it is an anti-inflammatory. See  Thistles: A Highly Nutritious and Medicinal Weed . “The globe artichoke is the giant flower bud of a plant very closely related to wild thistles. It is possible (although not necessarily pleasant) to peel the bristly bracts from the outside of the thistle flower bud (well before flowering time) and expose a tiny, tender, delicious artichoke-like heart. Unfortunately, this vegetable is less than half an inch in diameter – so small that it is hardly worth mentioning except as a curiosity.” Samuel Thayer, A Forager’s Harvest   Jeremy Griffith on The Human Condition, and why we should all eat thistles: See www.humancondition.com . See www.thedonkeysanctuary.org.uk .