On the small Canary Island of La Gomera, an ancient whistling language that once almost died out is now undergoing an exciting revival.
The Spanish island that communicates by whistle BBC
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This porcelain collection is an excellent choice for residential projects thanks to Aparici innovative technique for a smoother finish, ensuring a higher adherence and anti-slip rating, ideal for demanding spaces like bathrooms and kitchens.
What we see is landscaped architecture. Two retaining walls follow the contour lines, distorting the ground slightly to inject a courtyard with a garage and technical amenities. A curved pass similar to an architectural promenade reveals this yard and the house’s entrance. There, we access the interior through a split in the second retaining wall.
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Raise your ambitions, and dumb it down.
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But not this $7.30 bottle of De Bortoli Sacred Hill shiraz 2019.
In fact this Aussie drop is so good, it has just been crowned the best value wine in the annual Top 100 Reds Magazine, put together by wine editor Ray Jordan.
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For The Guardian, Annalisa Barbieri wrote Why I’m glad that I’m an ‘overthinker’.
“Just going with it” is not something I do. I have to really understand what I’m doing and then I think through almost every possibility and eventuality, like a mind map on steroids. And I plan. When people say things like: “Who could have imagined XYZ would happen?” about some entirely predictable outcome, my most common response is “I could”. I have realised that for most people I am an overthinker, but for me, it is others who underthink. I just think.
I have taken my foot off the overthinking pedal in recent years, but that paragraph more or less describes me to a T. My anxiety and overthinking used to feel like a handicap, like something to be overcome, but Oliver Burkeman’s persuasive argument in The Antidote convinced me to think about my anxiety as useful and even a little bit of a superpower, as long as it doesn’t spiral out of control.
