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ghost post 1 (prev were originally in wordpress or substack)

Perhaps this time. I wonder if DNS migration got any easier in the 20 years since I last did one? Well, I've put forwarding on. and nobody is typing in domain names any more anyway. the kids these days are all about the clicking. The poster’s guide

Wednesday words: yew

Yew wood is so good at making bows that the genus name is taxus - 'probably borrowed, via Greek, from Taxša, the Scythian word for yew (and bow)' and not related to income tax (Latin, to assess) or taxonomy (Greek, an arrangement). It is, however, related to '

Study: soil 1.2

What did I once read about sunflowers pulling poisons out of earth? I know it was on paper and in my school days so I suspect it was in New Scientist or Scientific American, but a search for 'sunflowers toxins earth' gives me the keywords phytoremediation and (specifically

Writing: 'why doesn't she just'

When I'm talking about films or books with The Big Spoon, his great gift is asking questions that show up how much stories rely on characters reacting out of proportion. If she knows she's ill, why doesn't she go and ask for a prescription?

Wednesday words: bat names

I was trying to write 'like a bat out of hell' in a fancy way and went to find a group name for bats - I genuinely thought they were all one genus, they're very much not. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat reminds me

Study: soil 1.1

1 How do they classify soil types? Chalk, clay, loam, peat, sand, silt sayshttps://www.gardenersworld.com/plants/find-out-your-soil-type/and I know we're sandy and silty here just from watching my footprints on walks, but I was expecting a more quantitative analysis. Something more like this https://en.