London's homicide rate hit its lowest level since records began.
Yet 40% of the public thought that murders had risen since 2019.
That’s the danger of disinformation. We cannot accept it, and to defeat it, we’ve got to put pressure on the social media companies who profit from it.
@RefDecisionExp@johngibbonsblog So you could go down for 2 or 3 seconds, get up, but the opposition kicks the ball out - so you've got to leave the pitch for around 2% of the time that the ball is in play during a match. Wait till this starts getting used as a tactic. Madness
🔴 Dawn of The Reds ⚽
Newcastle United v Liverpool
📍 St James’ Park
🗓️ Monday 24 August
🕜 Kick-off: 1:30am AEST
As we begin the new season, the manager will be desperate to see the players embrace his style and hit the ground running.
Let's go Lads!! 👊🔥
YNWA
@TheAnfieldWrap My first game as a fully invested Red. Couldn't get tickets despite being back in Croydon on holiday from Africa. Match of the Day took forever to come on!
@LFC_Queensland
In May 2016, 15-year-old Karinya “Yaya” Chen was in hospice care in Austin, Texas after years of fighting cancer. She had tickets to see Florence The Machine, but by the night of the concert, she was simply too sick to go.
So the people at Hospice Austin reached out to the band.
And Florence Welch came to her.
Florence and guitarist Rob Ackroyd walked into Karinya’s room and gave her the concert she couldn't make it to. They sang “Shake It Out” and “Dog Days Are Over,” with Karinya singing and harmonizing right alongside them.
A few months later, Karinya lost her battle with cancer at just 15 years old.
But for one afternoon, none of that seemed to matter.
There was just a young girl, one of her favorite singers, a guitar, a room full of people who loved her... and music.
Sometimes the smallest act of kindness can become one of the biggest moments of someone's life.
This is what being human is supposed to look like.🙏
For seven years, planners struggled to complete a $1.2 million wetland restoration project in the Brdy region of the Czech Republic. The goal was to build a dam that would improve water management and bring back valuable wetland habitat, but the project remained trapped in a maze of permits and approvals.
Then a family of eight Eurasian beavers did what engineers had planned…
without permits, machinery, or a budget.
The beavers built a network of dams in almost the exact area chosen for the proposed project, naturally restoring the wetland system officials had spent years trying to create. After seeing the results, authorities decided there was little point continuing with the original human-built dam.
Although some reports suggested the beavers completed the work overnight, experts say their construction likely took several weeks. The reason it seemed sudden is that the animals quietly worked away until their finished dams became impossible to miss.
Beavers are known as “ecosystem engineers” because their behaviour can reshape entire environments. By cutting trees and blocking streams, they create ponds and wetlands that support countless species, including fish, amphibians, insects, birds, and mammals.
Their wetlands also act as natural water reservoirs, helping during droughts, reducing flood risks, filtering water, storing carbon, and keeping landscapes wetter during wildfires.
The world’s largest known beaver dam, located in Canada’s Wood Buffalo National Park, stretches for hundreds of metres and is so vast it can be detected from space.
Once heavily hunted across Europe, beaver populations have been recovering thanks to conservation efforts, proving that sometimes nature can solve problems humans spend years trying to fix.
Read here
"These eager beavers saved the Czech government $1.2
million." National Geographic