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The Chain Playlist
I love that remix, PG, and I haven't got it - can you recommend a source? Meanwhile, from "new ears" to "happy new ears", as John Cage once wished his audience:

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The Chain Playlist

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Super! Nature Notes
The Sperm Whale story is heartbreaking - although I can't imagine daubing a whale corpse with graffiti, no matter how righteous the slogan. Wouldn't it feel too sacriligeous, somehow? Meanwhile, I'm trying to organise some direct a…

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Dreams, and your subconscious mind...
I need to get to that lake, pronto.

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Super! Nature Notes
I'm sure you are right about Zika virus becoming a rationale for wrecking another part of Gaia, PG. I feel really conflicted about this, as in my time, I have worked hard to reduce deaths and illness in developing countries, as well as in the U…

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RIP
^Too On The Nose!!!

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Dreams, and your subconscious mind...
Such a lot of "psychic" power seems bogus to me - not deliberately so, but more in the way of the way we have a natural inclination to seek out patterns, connections and coincidences, and to discount the times when our intuitions and hunch…

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What are you listening to now?
The Au Pairs, featuring the completely awesome Lesley Woods. The BBC instructed them NOT to play the second song here, as it was "too political". They did, of course, and didn't appear on the BBC again.

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sciencey stuff and astronomy type things.
Fuck me, where did that come from? A new planet

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Live clips
^What a fab session, LuDux, thank you. Alison, live, with a "terrible cold" is still flawless. And "Paper Bag" still does its magic trick of conjuring a world of mist and longing and heart from nothing.

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Super! Nature Notes
A hard frost this morning brings a new bird to the garden - Yellowhammers, a male and a female Yikes! Just as I am typing, a Woodpigeon flies into the window. Seems OK though.

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What are you listening to now?
That is great, PG. Meanwhile, this is the lovely title song for the best TV series I have ever seen.

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Goldfrapp scans & photos
Laughing Alison!

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Super! Nature Notes
Aaaahhh, PG - you are right. If we could only arrange ourselves in accord with our most rational, humane and compassionate thoughts, we would be like gods. But we're just yet another species that popped up, thought it was the bees knees for a f…

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Entertain me! (the twisted & disturbing are welcome)
No, only me

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Dreams, and your subconscious mind...
I had a look at some research, Kat. Apparently, in old age, dreams are slightly fewer - probably because sleep overall is more disrupted. Some people also report that they tend to be less emotionally intense too, but this might be a defence reflex r…

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What are you listening to now?
Thanks, Appy61, that is a great version. When I try to play the link, tho, I only get a 10 second clip. I found the whole thing, with a nice animation, here

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Super! Nature Notes
I have been thinking about the "all animals should be homosexual" idea. One interesting thought is that most eukaryotes (basically all organisms other than bacteria) have the ability to reproduce asexually (by budding, self fertilisation …

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Entertain me! (the twisted & disturbing are welcome)
In answer to a query in the Nature Notes thread, this is what happens when carnivorous animals turn veggie....

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Super! Nature Notes
Yeah, it sucks that us UK people have nothing to compare with hummingbirds (I guess that the nectar-eater niche is filled by butterflies and moths here). On the other point, I think that Nature isn't there for our amusement, edification or edu…

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RIP
This, for me, is one of the great consolations when facing one's own death - the knowledge that so many have gone before; that I am only following a path that has been trod by countless others. Bowie's last album, and the Lazarus vid in pa…

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Super! Nature Notes
I didn't mean to lecture, Kat! I don't think it's a female thing - did you see the doc about the female Orca researcher in New Zealand last night? And I had a right old barney with a bloke a while ago because I made a wildlife report …

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RIP
I'll truly miss you, David. If only more artists in the world had your sense of decency, true creativity and heart. The world might just be a better place if so. Less twerking and KitKat eating instructional videos, and more creative thinking…

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Super! Nature Notes
You are right, UT. And - like KatRobin implies - ecosystem diversity is massively enhanced by flourishing populations of top predators. I expect you know about how the reintroduction of wolves in Yellowstone increased biodiversity - the hunting-ou…

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Dreams, and your subconscious mind...
Thanks, PG, that was grand. Connection with the Earth is one of the things I often bore people with, so you are pushing on an open door there. In fact, this morning, I woke with a resolution to review my meds and be ruthless about only taking the re…

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Dreams, and your subconscious mind...
I'm on some pretty heavy meds atm, so my dreams tend to be wild. Last night, I dreamt that I was confronted by a large and muscular Natice American shaman. He was heavily tatooed from head to foot with intricate and heavily coloured patterns. …

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What`s the last film you watched ?
^Exactly, PG. I think the heavy use of "Princess Di" type glances from half closed lids mannerism was perfectly justifiable - in interviews, Eddie Redmayne says that he spoke to a number of trans women who said they went through an early &…

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Entertain me! (the twisted & disturbing are welcome)
Miriam Elia wrote the spoof Ladybird book, "We Go To The Gallery". Penguin took her to court, claiming breach of copyright and forcing her to pulp all the intial print run. They have now produced a series of spoof Ladybird books, clearly r…

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Super! Nature Notes
I was wondering when this would happen - at lunchtime, I looked out of the window to see a female Sparrowhawk crouched beneath the birdtable, amidst a swirl of grey Wood Pigeon feathers. She flew off into the hedge a minute later with the corpse in …

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What`s the last film you watched ?
Just got in from seeing The Danish Girl Hmmm....I think I should have stuck to the panto. Eddie Redmayne played it pretty convincingly, but frankly, I was irritated to death by that character - a bit of a drawback, considering.

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