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About agogo22

Director of Manchester School of Samba at http://www.sambaman.org.uk

This leather work

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Graphic stopping the train in the Tokyo subway

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The 400-Year-Old Engineering You Can See From Space!

When you fly light aircraft around the UK, you start to notice things most people never see. From altitude — and even from space — there’s an unusually straight line cutting across eastern England. It doesn’t follow a road, it … Continue reading →

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BBC Radio 4 – Archive on 4, Robert Graves and ‘I Claudius’, L years on

It’s 50 years on from the first screening of the TV series I, Claudius – the hugely popular and perhaps surprising cultural phenomenon that brought the story of a lesser-known Roman emperor into the living rooms of millions of families … Continue reading →

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Snow Buntings

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Why animals can’t talk (but almost can)

Let’s explore whether animals can talk. And go to https://ground.news/robwords to see how language shapes our perspectives. Save 40% for unlimited access to the Vantage Plan through my link. What accent would a talking monkey have? What does an elephant … Continue reading →

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The Mysterious Origins of the Snake Plant

[…] ➡️ Up Next: The genetic gamble behind corn ► • Corn’s Wild Story You Never Learned in School You may know it as a powerhouse air cleaning houseplant but the snake plant (Dracaena trifasciata) has a wilder history than … Continue reading →

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When Love Breaks What It Holds Most Dear

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This Simple Glow Trick Breaks Classical Physics

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American things that are NOT NORMAL in Japan

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