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Learning keeps your mind alive and inquisitive, learning has no age barriers.
Learning keeps your mind alive and inquisitive, learning has no age barriers. Researchers have found that studying a language enhances brain plasticity and capacity for learning. Learning a language increases the power of neuroplasticity. if you are unfamiliar...
Dundee and how they got the Victorian and Albert Museum
Dundee and how they got the Victorian and Albert Museum. One of the most interesting aspects of the V&A in Dundee (apart from the spectacular - paid for - exhibitions) is the origin of the story. The V&A didn't approach Dundee council with the idea for...
Running round the park
Running round the park Honestly the best community initiative of the last fifteen years. It's fantastic as a community event, gets people exercising and makes a real difference. I love it. I got a massive buzz on my first parkrun. I'd never done anything...
I love the garden
I love my garden best in autumn. I neglect all the tidying up chores and cast my eyes up to the trees and the ever changing beautiful leaf colours. Love to see the wind sending a golden blizzard of leaves across the neglected grass and the fungi growing...
Rubbish cleanup in the Oceans
A huge floating device designed by Dutch scientists to clean up an island of rubbish in the Pacific ocean that is three times the size of France has successfully picked up plastic from the high-seas for the first time. In the Great Pacific Garbage Patch....
Tea bags are destroying the world
Tea bags are destroying the world Those nylon tea bags are leeching billions of microplastics into every single cup of tea and then those plastics enter into the sea and into the oceans to be eaten by the fish. tea bags are actually flooding every one...
Lido is a great experience
Bains des Paquis in Geneva, a beautiful renovated 1932 lido jutting out into the lake, in the summer it's the coolest beach, and in the winter a magical spa, with sauna, hammam and Turkish baths, the plunge pool being the lake. Oh and one of the most...