The funniest maths in modern environmentalism.
One almond requires 12 litres of irrigated water to produce. Peer-reviewed, ScienceDirect, 2017. A glass of almond milk contains roughly 50 of them. 600 litres of water before the carton is filled.
The water comes from the San Joaquin Valley in California, which sits over one of the most over-extracted aquifers on earth. The valley floor has subsided by up to nine metres in places due to groundwater depletion. The carton is then refrigerated, sailed across the Atlantic, refrigerated again, lorried to a Manchester Tesco, and bought by someone who is concerned about the environmental impact of dairy.
Meanwhile, in Cheshire.
A British dairy cow drinks roughly 70 to 100 litres of water a day and produces around 28 litres of milk. That's about 3.5 litres of water per litre of milk. The water is rainwater that fell on her field or came from a local stream fed by the same rainwater. The rain was going to fall on the field whether the cow stood in it or not. 80% of her moisture intake comes from the grass itself, which is also rain.
She converts the grass, free of charge, into a litre of milk containing seven times the protein and four times the calcium of almond milk, and shipped roughly 18 miles to the same Tesco.
To recap.
600 litres of stolen aquifer, flown halfway round the world for nutritionally worthless beige water.
Or 3.5 litres of rain that was already falling, converted by an animal you can pet, into actual food.
The shopper picks the almond.
She has been told this is the ethical position.
The aquifer would like a word.
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Today Starmer is “hailing” a huge deal between Britain and the Gulf states worth £3.7bn.
This was made possible by Brexit freedoms (we can now negotiate our own trade deals).
But Starmer isn’t “hailing” that.
Because his party plans to reverse Brexit.
https://t.co/WlgcP8LX4Z
The UK Climate lie.
If the UK trebled emissions and sustained that for a full century, the extra cumulative CO2 would be ~58 Gt. That translates to roughly 0.026°C of additional warming — about 1/40th of a degree, after 100 years.
We have no need for nett zero.
@GBNEWS
A tiny bee just did what chemotherapy couldn't.
Scientists in Australia discovered that honeybee venom can wipe out 100% of aggressive breast cancer cells in under 60 minutes.
And the healthy cells around them? Barely touched.
The breakthrough came from Dr. Ciara Duffy and her team at the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research, working alongside the University of Western Australia.
They tested venom drawn from 312 honeybees and bumblebees across Australia, Ireland, and England.
The target: triple-negative breast cancer and HER2-enriched breast cancer. Two of the deadliest, most stubborn forms of the disease.
The weapon: melittin. The same tiny peptide that makes a bee sting burn.
At one specific dose, melittin tore through cancer cell membranes completely within an hour. Within just 20 minutes, it shut down the chemical signals cancer cells need to grow and multiply.
Bumblebee venom, which lacks melittin, did nothing. Zero effect, even at high concentrations.
Scientists then recreated melittin synthetically in the lab and got almost identical results, meaning no bees need to be harmed to develop the therapy.
Published in the peer-reviewed journal npj Precision Oncology, the findings are still early-stage. Human trials haven't happened yet.
But one thing is clear. Nature has been hiding answers in plain sight all along, sometimes inside the smallest creatures on Earth.
Source: Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research / npj Precision Oncology (Dr. Ciara Duffy et al.)
If there was a referendum on rejoining the EU today, how would you vote?
• Rejoin the EU 🇪🇺
• Stay out of the EU 🇬🇧
• Undecided
• Wouldn’t vote
The country feels more divided than ever on Brexit.
Curious to see where public opinion really stands in 2026. 👇
@TheSecretAcct@alexjmarsh1 Average is pretty meaningless if you are looking at all adults, as the younger adults will have relatively little, dragging the average down. What is more meaningful is the average for over 55s. Couldn’t quite find that, but this has closer figures. https://t.co/c4LbXbC9vm
100,000 more retirees empty out pension pots in one hit - The Telegraph
The average size of a pension pot has edged down from £18,367 in 2018-19 to £17,355 in 2024-25
I hadn’t realised the average was so low!
How will people manage?
@alexjmarsh1
https://t.co/bExr4XBrXJ.
Skip Netflix for one night.
Use that same 1 hour to study an MIT lecture on money, investing, and wealth creation.
The knowledge you gain may be worth more than 20 years of traditional finance experience.