When David Attenborough was born in 1926, the oldest living person at the time was Delina Filkins (born May 4, 1815).
This means Attenborough was alive at the same time as someone alive during the Battle of Waterloo (June 1815). Filkins died in 1928, age 113.
We spend billions looking for life on other planets.
David Attenborough has spent his entire life showing us the life on this one.
Both matter. Only one is irreplaceable.
Happy 100th.
The Thiepval Memorial bears the names of over 72,000 men of the British and South African forces who died on the Somme and have no known grave.
It is our largest memorial in the world – and one of the most powerful places of remembrance anywhere.
In our latest blog, we explore the story behind Thiepval: why it was built, what the names represent, and how this vast memorial continues to connect us to those who were lost.
🔗 Read the blog on our website, link in the comments.
In Australia, a man named Alfie Date moved into a retirement home at the age of 109. About 12 hours after he arrived, two of the nurses came to his room and asked if he could knit. He could, he’d been at it since 1932.
They told him about a program asking volunteers to knit tiny woolen sweaters for an endangered species called Little Penguins. The sweaters stop oil-covered birds from cleaning themselves with their beaks during a spill, because the oil is toxic if they swallow it. Alfie said yes. He spent his last two years knitting hundreds of them. He was lost in 2016, at 110.
The life of a millennial:
- Graduated straight into a recession
- “Entry level” jobs required years of experience
- Pensions replaced by the 401k
- Promoted at work meant a 2% raise & 200% more responsibility
- finally felt stable… then a pandemic hit
- Highest inflation in 50 years deleted pay raises
- home prices doubled, renting became permanent
- Childcare costs feels like another rent
- Juggling aging parents, young kids, burnout from work & the cost to live
- AI causing mass layoffs during peak earning years
UKGovScan: making the British state searchable
While the state rolls out digital ID to collect every disparate aspect of your life, a new project called @UKGovscan returns the favour to the state..
Their website collates public contracts, political donations, MPs’ and Lords’ interests, lobbying, council spending, aid, schools and company data into one place, giving journalists and citizens a faster way to follow public money.
Read it in @ReinersProject: https://t.co/g0Sv1zCm2W