My mother was a keen swimmer, and she lived with depression. I wonder if she found the same respite in the water that has helped heal me since she passed away

#sea #mum #struggled

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Super-rich get ‘double dividend’ from causes and costs of climate crisis, report finds

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Super-rich get ‘double dividend’ from causes and costs of climate crisis, report finds

Oxfam says investing by rich in disaster recovery widens inequality and gives incentive to delay climate action

#oxfam #double-dividend #super

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Did you solve it? A magical melody from the Mozart of math

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Did you solve it? A magical melody from the Mozart of math

The solution to today’s puzzles

#mozart #coins #plants

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‘Maxxing’ is Dictionary.com’s word of the year: ‘It’s cooler than saying you’re doing more’

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‘Maxxing’ is Dictionary.com’s word of the year: ‘It’s cooler than saying you’re doing more’

As all facets of our lives are optimized, the suffix has become inescapable - and experts predict it’s around to stay

#maxxing #dictionary

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Can you solve it? A magical melody from the Mozart of math

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Can you solve it? A magical melody from the Mozart of math

Terence Tao grows coins

#mozart #tao #terence

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‘They paved paradise’: fighting back over the loss of green spaces in Cameroon’s capital

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‘They paved paradise’: fighting back over the loss of green spaces in Cameroon’s capital

Concrete sprawl in Yaoundé has devastated the city’s trees and parks, so volunteers are stepping up, shrub by shrub

#cameroon #ngono

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US military gives Elon Musk’s SpaceX access to sensitive tracking data

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US military gives Elon Musk’s SpaceX access to sensitive tracking data

This gives the company an advantage in tracking objects in orbit, raising national security concerns and fears of greater control over the space industry

#elon-musk #space #spacex

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Lights out: the island that goes dark to save young seabirds – in pictures

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Lights out: the island that goes dark to save young seabirds – in pictures

Every autumn, Corvo Island in thre Azores turns off its public lighting for a few key days to help fledgling Cory’s shearwaters as they attempt to fly to the ocean guided by the stars

#island #ocean #corvo

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