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Education: Reasons for Concern
The above information is sobering.
Might the COVID shutdown have made matters worse or meant time for schools and their decision-makers and staffs to move toward what matters most in education: learning completely and correctly?
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/28/2025
Political Correctness
I couldn't agree with you more. I live in a part of the world where that sort of thing is not pervasive in society (yet) and it is very refreshing. When I go home to UK I feel like the only sane person in a madhouse.
nickupton, on 05/28/2025
Iznogoud 2; The Caliph's Vacation
I don't know much about those series but I have watched some of it on Youtube, you can find some episodes there.
nickupton, on 05/28/2025
Leo the Fourteenth
The pope makes his own timetable
frankbeswick, on 05/28/2025
Caring for your soil
We are using it up faster than it is being renewed
frankbeswick, on 05/28/2025
Caring for your soil
The first paragraph to the fifth subheading, Fertilisers, alerts us that " A related product is calcified seaweed, which we obtained from the seabed off Cornwall, but the supply is running out."
Is calcified seaweed going extinct just off ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/27/2025
Leo the Fourteenth
Your last paragraph alerts us that the pope has "no contractual hours, no salary."
Who decides what the pope does with his hours and when, where and with whom he does them?
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/27/2025
Leo the Fourteenth
They are generally close to the Vatican, if not on its territory.
frankbeswick, on 05/24/2025
Leo the Fourteenth
Thank you for your comment below in answer to my previous observation and question.
Are there Vatican properties -- such as where Pope Benedict retired -- few or many in number outside the Vatican?
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/24/2025
Trees Role in the Environment
How many trees abound minimally for animal-sentient, environmental, people, plant-sentient health?
A trend among certified arborists and in certified arboriculture accepts the 3-30-300 rule articulated by Cecil Konijnendijk of Nature Based ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/24/2025
Norah's Cafe in Taubman Museum of Art: A Great Cup of Coffee Over Art in Downtown Roanoke, Virginia
Online sources a couple years ago addressed ambitious patrons who allocated an entire year to the seasonal and year-round menus available as Starbucks drinks and eats.
Norah's Cafe equivalently assumes an astronishing menu of appealing, ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/23/2025
Film Review of The Little Princess: Shirley Temple in Drama With Cesar Romero and Arthur Treacher
Shirley-Temple films can cause a consideration of a prequel, a remake, a sequel, a series.
Might such updates muster more accolades, interest and profits by maintaining the original biogeographical, cultural, temporal settings or by moving all ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/23/2025
Rock-Haunting Ringtail Possum (Petropseudes dahli) of Groote Eylandt and Northern Australia
The computer crashed afore I could convey the concluding components to my observation and question below.
Online sources designate as zoomusicology the musical communication and sounds among animal sentients.
What ancient culture first might ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/23/2025
Socotra Pomegranate Tree (Punica protopunica): The Vulnerable Predicament of the "Other Pomegranate"
The computer crashed afore I could conclude the comment below.
Online sources deem as pomegranate alternatives, replacements and substitutes blackberries, cherries, cranberries, molasses, raspberries, red currants and strawberries.
The afore ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/23/2025
Leo the Fourteenth
I suppose that before the era of cars at leastsome popes@alked short distances
frankbeswick, on 05/23/2025