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  • Newsletter No. 23: Emerging from aestivation
    Massimo Pigliucci · ‘spirituality’ · Barry Lopez · talking trees · Eleanor Konik · rewilding · Mark Cocker · light pollution · Sir Clive Sinclair · Horatio Clare · swifts · The Enlightenment
  • Newsletter No. 22: His glib, beardless chops
    Insensitive teenager · Helen Macdonald · Patrick Barkham · Richard Mabey · Julian Hoffman · photography · Mars · Christina Riley · icebergs · bowling alleys · cassette tapes · Richard Thompson · Antikythera mechanism · and more…

RSS Recent Sidelines

  • A trip out
    A spin around the Yorkshire Dales
  • Back-endish
    This wonderful autumn has finally begun to show signs of ‘back-endishness’, although there are still plenty of glorious colours to admire.
  • Autumn strolls
    After several days of pretty dreadful weather, Jen and I were finally able to get some decent autumn strolls in over the last week.

RSS Recent Articles

  • Giving fiascos a bad name
    How not to make a simple three-minute podcast piece.
  • Gilbert White’s influence on Charles Darwin
    To mark the 300th anniversary of his birth, a brief account of Rev. Gilbert White’s influence on Charles Darwin.

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  • HebWeb interview
    I have been interviewed for the local HebWeb site.
  • 2020: a year in photos
    My tenth annual video slideshow.

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