If it really comes down to it, apply for everything, go to every interview and take the first thing you think you could actually do.

If you can stand it for at least a while, you have got over the first and biggest hurdle.

It’s easier to get a job if you already have a job.

First world problems, eh?

Discovering how quickly pollution levels dropped was eye opening, I’m sure a lot of people noticed the reporting on that globally.

Sadly it may never happen again, but I hope it does even if it’s after my lifetime.

Oh look, a day off for the environment. I’ll take that as a win.

And Waitrose is only taking cash FFS!

Imagine what 358M could get you in actual green, non fossil fuel renewable energy generation?

How do these people sleep at night?

That, sir, is a sotielty and not to be eaten!

Medieval food for the rich would be my happy place -

Some recipes are familiar and are delicious (they made great custard tarts), there are early recipes for rice pudding, bread sauce and meatballs. They even made pasta, which was most often rolled out thinly, cut into diamonds and dried. The pasta would be layered up with cooked mincemeat and a cheese sauce: in other words, a mediaeval English lasagne!

And this as well -

there are many vegetarian and vegan dishes as well as recipes using freshwater fish and almonds or almond milk.

Great link, thanks!

They should make a Pro version of this.

Wow, what a fascinating article. Really well written, it transported me into the ideas and actors, and conveyed the interaction between state, industry and science in an almost story-like fashion.

Probably the best short article I’ve read this year. Brilliant.

Oh god no, not sparrow in a pigeon in a duck in a chicken in a goose in a turkey…AGAIN!