Time To Take Play More Seriously

Slovenia has long held a high regard for these insects. In the 18th century, Maria Theresa, then empress of the Habsburg Empire, launched the world’s earliest beekeeping school in Vienna and named Anton Janša as the instructor. “He was the first beekeeping teacher in the whole world, and he was a Slovenian,” explains Blaž Ambrožič, who looks after more than 100 colonies and sells bee products on his family farm in Bled. 

IT’S ALWAYS IN THE LAST PLACE YOU LOOK:  The secret to healthy honey bees is hiding in Slovenia.

Ash Barty like you've never seen her before: Tennis superstar stuns on the cover of Vogue Australia in her first ever high-end fashion shoot

A 30-Hour, Three-Day Theatre Piece Staged On A Three-Ton Ice Block Suspended Over Sydney Harbor

The work, titled Thaw and conceived by physical theatre company Legs on the Wall and Alaskan composer Matthew Burtner, "features an acrobatic performer balancing, grasping and watching her frozen home melt away." (Yes, it's about climate change.) - The Sydney Morning Herald

Time To Take Play More Seriously

"You're making connections between different parts of the brain which haven't necessarily been connected before and then you're repeating it. It's through this process of repetition that you're helping to strengthen the connections between these different brain areas." - BBC

Single-celled marine organism first to be found releasing oxygen in the dark Chemistry World. “The researchers are now studying whether or not other ammonia-oxidising archaea can also perform the same trick to grow under continuously anoxic conditions. If so, it could transform the archaea were in any of the models….

China Local Land Sales Fall Just as Beijing Calls for Spending Caixin Global

 

Provincial and ministerial-level corrupt officials appeared on the camera and confessed: my crazy greed is at its peak, but I don’t know why I ask for money What China Reads

 

Winter chill brings promise of stability in China-India border dispute South China Morning Post

 

US lays out case against ‘unlawful’ China maritime claims Bangkok Post 

 

Spiking the Problem: Developing a Resilient Posture in the Indo-Pacific with Passive DefensesWar on the Rocks

CIA-trained Ukrainian paramilitaries may take central role if Russia invades Yahoo News. There’s good news tonight!

Would Paul Gauguin Care About The Moral Condemnation He Gets Today? Just Read His Final Journals

As writer Laura Gascoigne puts it here, "Is Gauguin redeemable? By today's standards, no. Would he want to be redeemed? Almost certainly not." - The Spectator (UK)