Ian Kenway @iankenway@social.cleverlibre.org

Interesting fact of the day: The first words spoken on the moon was "That's one small step for _A_ man, one giant leap for man kind". However due to a misinterpretation he has always been consistently misquoted as saying "..one small step for man..."

Council of Europe issues media freedom alert over UK government blacklisting of investigative journalists

<p>Formal warning comes as government claims environmental protesters are a threat to press freedom</p>

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/press-freedom-uk-government-council-europe-alert-boris-johnson-priti-patel-a9706741.html

#Coronavirus: School staff in #Bridgend, #Cwmbran and #Carmarthen test positive
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-54030857

In the middle of a conifer forest there stands this gnarly old dead deciduous tree. I don't know if it was dead before the forest was planted, or died because of lack of light.
I'd never seen it covered in mushrooms like this before.
#photography
#nature

Creative Commons Is Now Leading the Open COVID Pledge — Here’s What That Means

We’re pleased to announce today that #Creative #Commons is taking on leadership and stewardship of the Open #COVID Pledge.

Earlier this year, CC joined forces with an international group of #researchers, #scientists, #academics, and lawyers seeking to accelerate the development of diagnostics, vaccines, therapeutics, medical […]

🔗 https://creativecommons.org/2020/08/27/cc-ocp/

#science #openscience #opendata #research #CreativeCommons

Brexiters "don’t just want what they can’t have, but they want what they don’t want". https://chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2020/09/back-to-school.html

Sublime from Professor Chris Grey, as always 👏👨‍🏫🇪🇺

#Brexit

Brits, take it from an Aussie: If #TonyAbbott is your solution, you’ve got big problems | Van Badham | #Opinion | The Guardian

Abbott is a walking disaster area both as a gaffe machine and politically. Only the #Tories are mad enough to employ him, I guess.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/04/brits-aussie-tony-abbott-trade-envoy

#UK #Australia

We have another zero in the #Covid19Cymru official figures for deaths today. That's still just one death in the past week.
Number of cases is up to 51, and Welsh government is blaming young people for not social distancing - and likely with justification. By the spread of cases not in the hotspots, I'd say there's still a large element of seeing in from outside (returning holidaymakers mainly).
7-day average: 0.14
Total: 1596

Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous.

– Confucius

#Quote