What is a bestiary for? A #Tedx talk by Caspar Henderson medievalists.net/2024/04/what-i… #bestiaries #medieval

“if we had acted more boldly 40 years ago, solar PV might have been cheap enough to put fossil fuels out of business at the turn of the millennium…” Tim Harford on.ft.com/4aduK81

'Reform UK has what Mark Fisher called the “agency of the virtual”—the ability to affect things merely by polluting the minds of others, rather than by altering reality directly. Reform UK does not exist. But in British politics, existence is overrated' economist.com/britain/2024/0…

This edition of Pick of the Week presented by Sean Cooney of the Young’uns is rather exceptional and wonderful bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

“Conservative party staff and activists are secretly operating a network of Facebook groups that have become a hotbed of racism, misinformation and support for criminal damage.” theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

The beauty of music 'consists only in the harmonies of numbers and in a calculation, which we do not perceive but which the soul nevertheless carries out.' Leibniz (1712) quoted by Prof Milton Mermikides in this wonderful lecture on musical consonance and dissonance. youtube.com/live/r4oupJSs7…

'Prisoners were paid between $5 and $7 each time, and the plasma was sold for about $100 into the drug industry supply chain' theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/a…

“Shamelessness is the great public weapon of our time.” Salman Rushdie podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the…

Behaviours indicative of consciousness “can exist in an architecture that looks completely alien to vertebrate or human architecture.” Peter Godfrey-Smith talking to Dan Falk quantamagazine.org/insects-and-ot…