Jane McLaren

In a crowded bus without HEPA filtration or masks, this can meaningfully reduce transmission risk. It doesn’t eliminate risk, but the principle is more fresh air = fewer virus particles in the air, similar to how cigarette smoke dissipates faster when windows are open.

Thank you

I think the secretary of defense should not be a psychopath

I am seeking greater ventilation on busy city buses and am told that it does not make any difference to the virus inside the bus on people's breath by those objecting to draughts if window opened. Lets assume that the bus has no Hepa filter, outside air is good quality and no masks worn. Thank you.

The Most Chilling Detail in the U.S. Attack on an Iranian Naval Ship The Iranian warship was taking part in an international exercise with many other countries—including the United States.

This is a chilling crime. A shame on our country. The Iranian ship was unarmed. The US knew this. The sailors were murdered by our navy, and the survivors were left to die at sea.
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Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El Niño

We are insane.

Our species is insane.

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"How quickly the Earth continues to warm ultimately depends on how rapidly we reduce global CO2 emissions from fossil fuels to zero" -

☝️It's not for lack of data. We know this. We ignore this. Just as we are doing with an #OngoingPandemic.

It's not just oil, the way. Fertilisers, and therefore food prices also in the firing line. www.ft.com/content/7efe...

There is very little marketing of train/ ferry journeys throughout the UK. One stark example is Holyhead, crying out for investment. A gateway to Europe! Docking straight into Dublin I found quite moving . Beautiful Anglesey needs an efficient bus service for non driving visitors!

Campaigners outside SSE's offices in Glasgow holding a banner which reads: "Stop Berwick Bank"

Today we gathered outside SSE's Glasgow office to urge them to stop the Berwick Bank offshore wind farm.

Together we delivered a petition signed by 12,500 people opposing this damaging project.

@seabirdcentre.bsky.social @n-t-s.bsky.social @mcsuk.bsky.social @scotwildlife.bsky.social

When I was young in the 60s there was a real pride that the UK had kept rabies out through quarantines and most people had a real fear of catching it from an animal if abroad. Maybe an awareness campaign might be wise to help prevent further tragedies.

Rabies death prompts call for more extensive patient travel history checks A coroner is calling for an urgent review of clinical guidelines on travel history assessment following the death of a woman from rabies contracted abroad.

The death of a woman from rabies contracted abroad has prompted a call for doctors to carry out more extensive patient travel history checks #doctors #NHS #rabies www.doctors.net.uk/news/rabies-...

Doctors' pay fell further than public sector average over 14 years, BMJ reveals Doctors' earnings have fallen more steeply in real terms than the public sector average between 2011 and 2025, according to new research a think tank has revealed.

Doctors' pay fell further than the public sector average over a 14-year period, The BMJ
reveals www.doctors.net.uk/news/doctors...

Meanwhile, Spain's massive investment in renewables is paying dividends now: with prices for Spanish industry and consumers low and stable compared with other European economies.

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Merz Warns of Economic Damage Due to ‘Endless’ War Against Iran German Chancellor Friedrich Merz warned the US and Israel against waging an “endless war” against Iran that could lead to the disintegration of the whole Middle Eastern state, a new migration crisis i...

Fascinating to watch 🇫🇷, then 🇬🇧, then 🇮🇹, now 🇩🇪 start to acknowledge what 🇪🇸's government recognised from the very start: the Trump-Netanyahu war on Iran is a reckless intervention conducted without regard for rules of war and without a strategy for what comes next.

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‘It’s 10,000 people saying – we’re with you’: inside Trans Mission, a night of solidarity and joy for a community under stress Olly Alexander and Glyn Fussell’s starry, Live Aid-inspired shindig – featuring Christine and the Queens, Kae Tempest and Munroe Bergdorf – is a show of unity in a dark time for trans people

“I would love some kind of collective revolt where we could stop feeling like shit about everything. We could stop feeling so powerless.”

Trans Mission is next Wednesday – and this is such a lovely preview by @dorianlynskey.bsky.social in @theguardian.com ✨
https://bit.ly/3NnwPbV

Absolutely essential. And Starmer should back it without reservation as Labour has the most to lose. It would also act as a firebreak to stop Tories just turning their coats inside out and joining reform.
Yes, you might lose an MP, but you may also stop the enemy gaining one.

Thank you, learning.

We're investigating a firm called MP Estate Planning, which sells trusts to save elderly people from the "modern threats" of divorce, bankruptcy, care home fees and inheritance tax.

We believe the trusts don't work.

If you've come across the firm, please get in touch.

Must read piece.

'The US has started a war without any legal, moral, strategic or political basis whatsoever. And yet instead of raising the alarm about it, the British press’ main question is why Britain is not more involved.' And 'Is Iraq really that long ago?'

People have short memories. History tells us that those innocents bereft maimed and/or cruelly displaced by powerful democracies exacting revenge or unrealistic regime change only spawn greater support for more global random terrorism placing everyone at risk.

Remember Thatcher's Belgrano in the Falklands War. Revealed by a phone - in on Nationwide to be retreating . A War that reportedly if remembering correctly would have had far more UK losses if all Argentina's Exocet missiles had worked.

De landbouw gebruikt elk jaar grote hoeveelheden schimmelbestrijders. In het ziekenhuis merken ze de gevolgen Infectieziekten: De schimmel Aspergillus fumigatus maakt in Nederland honderden slachtoffers per jaar. Bestrijdingsmiddelen in de landbouw hebben de schimmel resistent gemaakt.

Fungicides used in agriculture cause resistence in Aspergillus fumigatus (fungus present in every compost heap) wich can infect immunocompromised people. In the NL 1000 infections of resistent Aspergillus each year, 200 fatalities. Don't contribute to this and eat organic!
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We’re mostly full and thankfully not using our heating atm due to renovations.

This is BAD.

Far north Queensland residents told to seek higher ground as tropical low heads for coast Up to 240mm of rain expected to fall in six hours on Friday, BoM says, which could lead to dangerous flash flooding

Far north Queensland residents told to seek higher ground as tropical low heads for coast

Screw Covid, I'm going to Sturgis. Troy Tassier is a professor of economics at Fordham University and the author of The Rich Flee and the Poor Take the Bus: How Our Unequal Society Fails Us during Outbreaks.

"Screw Covid, I'm going to Sturgis!" The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, held in August 2020, was the epitome of the individual choice mindset. Of course it spread cases outward and caused infections, illness, and death. A new research paper allows us to watch the Sturgis Covid wave spread across the US.

Iranian Ship Was Leaving Indian Naval Exercise When Sunk, Raising Concerns in New Delhi The Iranian frigate sunk by a U.S. submarine last week had just left an Indian naval exercise. Now India's political opposition is demanding answers.

My lord! The frigate the US submarine torpedoed, the one the White House has been bragging about, was unarmed and headed home from an international naval exercise, hosted by India, that the US pulled out of at the last minute! www.military.com/daily-news/i...

This war isn’t an emergency that requires us to give the president more latitude. It’s a monstrosity that requires that judges, lawmakers and above all citizens work to preserve the integrity of elections and the republic.

'Staircase to Knowledge', Balamand University, Lebanon. The University of Balamand is a highly rated private, secular, Lebanese University. It welcomes faculty & students from all faiths & ethnic origins. The university is located in the northern district of El-Koura, and was founded by Patriarch Ignatius IV of Antioch in 1988. Here are the titles: 📚 The Epic of Gilgamesh The Republic of Plato Diwān Abū al-Ṭayyib al-Mutanbbī Resalat Al-Ghufran by Abī al-ʻAlāʼ al-Maʻarrī The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri Muqaddimah-i Ibn Khaldūn The Prince and the Discourses by Niccolò Machiavelli Discourse on Method by René Descartes The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant FAUST by Goethe The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche The Meaning of Relativity by Albert Einstein The Prophet by Khalil Gebran al-Ayyām by Ṭāhā Ḥusayn A Study of History by Arnold Toynbee Cosmos by Carl Sagan A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking Les Désorientés by Amin Maalouf The Road Ahead by Bill Gates

'Staircase to Knowledge', Balamand University, Lebanon.
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i really don't think Hegseth realized the diplomatic consequences of that strike