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These people knew mammoths!
Ice Age Art • Robert Macfarlane • Kathleen Jamie • medieval poems • lichen • Barbarian Conspiracy • the Shipping Forecast • escaping the entropy • and…
Oct 24, 2025
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Richard Carter
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Such an ugly looking baby
A startling personal revelation • an ugly baby • a bad pun about crossword puzzles • some sound advice from Kathleen Jamie, and all the usual links and…
Apr 2, 2025
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Richard Carter
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Downside-up moon
Astonishing facts about the moon • Samuel Pepys • the wood wide web • an ancient world map • women’s bits • Bic ballpoints • extinction of large species…
Aug 23, 2024
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Richard Carter
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Out-of-date before I’d written a word
Seaweed science • landscape philosophy • the Anthropocene that isn’t • Fred Hoyle • Einstein in a hut • sword evolution • early medieval funerary…
Apr 2, 2024
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Richard Carter
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Pottering with pen and paper
On failing to write in notebooks. Plus all the usual links and book recommendations.
Feb 9, 2024
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Richard Carter
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Gannets’ nostrils
Gannets • goitres • chestnut blights • gold in glass • Holy Roman Empire • barnacles • magnetism • aliens • wood-wide web • Mark Cocker • thoughts on…
Jan 5, 2024
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Richard Carter
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When nice old ladies wave
Crossing paths with the queen · medieval books · palimpsests · pelicans · prehistoric forests · runways · light pollution · Stendhal · spiders · Musk ·…
Oct 28, 2022
Ming
Fabulous birds • Rebecca Solnit • Webb Space Telescope • Stonehenge • book reviews • cutting some crap • and more…
Jul 29, 2022
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Richard Carter
An inspiration
David Hockney • starling murmurations • ancient scripts • wet plate photography • Amy Liptrot • Black Death! • book reviews
Jul 1, 2022
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Richard Carter
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