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the bug: Passion or sex: what motivates nature writers? (and can we jar it up and sell it to schools…)
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Help spread the wildlife bug! A weekly foray into the world of wildlife conservation. Helping you find the resources to inspire a legion of wildlife fanatics. Wednesday, 23 February 2011. Passion or sex: what motivates nature writers? And can we jar it up and sell it to schools…). Bizarrely, I spent the whole of World Cup 2002 sat on a sofa typing up the life-histories of 5,000 authors. Why? Could big brains and creativity be like men and Ferraris? 8220;Look at me, I can afford to run an expensive car!
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the bug: December 2010
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Help spread the wildlife bug! A weekly foray into the world of wildlife conservation. Helping you find the resources to inspire a legion of wildlife fanatics. Wednesday, 29 December 2010. Tapping into the environmental zeitgeist. Welcome to the Bug. What I hope will be a weekly update on 'what's what' in the zeitgeist that exists between the realms of wildlife conservation efforts and the growing environmental education movement in the UK. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Powered by The Wildlife-man.
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the bug: Birdsong: understanding the mind of mother nature (and why pigeons love girls called Emma or Gemma).
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Help spread the wildlife bug! A weekly foray into the world of wildlife conservation. Helping you find the resources to inspire a legion of wildlife fanatics. Wednesday, 16 February 2011. Birdsong: understanding the mind of mother nature (and why pigeons love girls called Emma or Gemma). Go to your nearest window now and open it. Or if you’re reading this outside, then pause. Wait. Wait. There! Between the noises of cars, planes and rattling earphones. Again, hear it? Hmmm…Oh, there! Nowadays I use birds...
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the bug: April 2011
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Help spread the wildlife bug! A weekly foray into the world of wildlife conservation. Helping you find the resources to inspire a legion of wildlife fanatics. Saturday, 30 April 2011. How to solve a problem like Mycologia. Behold the bacteria of the genus. The most abundant organism on this planet and largely responsible for the production of the majority of organic matter in the ocean. Without it the foodchain would collapse and we’d likely have a (bigger) mass extinction on our hands. And there’s...
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the bug: A wifi-cloud spotters' guide to the future of wildlife education
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Help spread the wildlife bug! A weekly foray into the world of wildlife conservation. Helping you find the resources to inspire a legion of wildlife fanatics. Wednesday, 9 February 2011. A wifi-cloud spotters' guide to the future of wildlife education. Plus (back to reality) there's lots on discovering more about forests, and information on getting your nest boxes up in time for National Nest Box Week. First stop for the children: a tree-top walk. The pupils ascend into a beautiful canopy arena, whil...
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[nature's footnote]: January 2014
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Wednesday, 29 January 2014. The dead planet bounce: how big a risk is Osborne taking on the environment? 8220;0.7% growth in GDP is a boost for the economic security of #hardworking people. Our long term plan is delivering a brighter economic future,”. Tweeted George Osborne yesterday. Praise be to £od! It seems that the British economy is definitely expanding! In fact, The Guardian reported later. This definitely doesn’t look like a Dead Cat Bounce. So….I can only applaud. The coalition’s position...
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the bug: Ponds, life and the death of a scientist
http://wildlife-man.blogspot.com/2011/05/ponds-life-and-death-of-scientist.html
Help spread the wildlife bug! A weekly foray into the world of wildlife conservation. Helping you find the resources to inspire a legion of wildlife fanatics. Tuesday, 31 May 2011. Ponds, life and the death of a scientist. I have a quote for you. It’s about ponds, and how incredible they are for learning. And it was written in 1880. (Yes, I own an old book. Aren’t I learned etc. etc.). Here goes…. Translation: ponds are bloody excellent. The quote comes from M. C. Cooke’s Ponds and Ditches,...This resona...
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the bug: Nature’s amazing feats (appearing now at your local service station)
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Help spread the wildlife bug! A weekly foray into the world of wildlife conservation. Helping you find the resources to inspire a legion of wildlife fanatics. Monday, 18 April 2011. Nature’s amazing feats (appearing now at your local service station). Student exchange trips at our school were hell. Weren’t they for every pre-pubescent teenager? Nettles. A stinging plant, armed with tiny barbs capable of deterring animals. Under a microscope these barbs are actually hairs (called trichomes), but i...IR...
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Jane Turnbull - Literary Agent Clients
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Some of the agency's clients and their current publications are listed below. Over the last 25 years we have handled many worldwide best sellers but this is a small, selective agency and we never represent for more than a couple of dozen 'active' authors at a time. The eminent clinical psychologist and author of BIRTH ORDER (Piatkus 2011) her new book THE KEY TO CALM was published by Hodder's new Yellow Kite imprint in spring 2014. Linda is a regular broadcaster, journalist and motivational speaker a...
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the bug: Corpse on the cob
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Help spread the wildlife bug! A weekly foray into the world of wildlife conservation. Helping you find the resources to inspire a legion of wildlife fanatics. Sunday, 15 May 2011. Corpse on the cob. This week's blog looks at the magic of spiders' webs - and how to do a CSI-style corpse survey. There's information on bringing spiders' webs back to the classroom for study. Oh, and some bleating about a woman on her wedding day. Funding news too. 8230;She gets stuck in a massive sticky web? Caddisfly larvae...