Brian Gosling
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Author: John Brown: The Forgotten Chess Composer? (2011) Revised Reinfeld's Beginner's Guide to Winning Chess. Like swimming and cycling. Born-310 ppm CO2
The young ones are coming...............
British Championship: Bazakutsa leads, Sivanandan among chasers
Svyatoslav Bazakutsa took sole possession of the lead at the British Chess Championship after defeating nine-time champion Michael Adams in round four. The 18-year-old Ukrainian now has a perfect 4/4,...
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Bodhana Sivanandan just took down Grandmaster Ameet Ghasi at the 2026 British Chess Championships in Coventry. And when I say took down, I mean completely destroyed. The 11-year-old is moving up a class.
Cincinnati has developed a Climate Migration Readiness Plan to absorb as many as 525,000 newcomers by 2050. It calls for building much denser housing, expanding public transit and decreasing the city’s reliance on fossil fuels.
A City With a Plan (Gift Article)
Cincinnati wants to take in people fleeing climate disasters. Plus, the latest on fires in Europe.
nytimes.com
It’s now official: June–July 2026 was the most anomalously warm two-month period ever recorded in France by a staggering margin. France is now virtually certain to record its warmest summer on record.
On #YorkshireDay, enjoy this lovely railway poster of the Yorkshire Dales by Ladybird artist Ronald Lampitt
On the 10th of February, 1824, this house beside St Mary Redcliffe was the birthplace of Samuel Plimsoll. A social reformer and MP, he is best known for devising the “Plimsoll Line” which ensured ships wouldn’t be dangerously overloaded. It has saved countless lives at sea and is still in use today.
As the planet starts to burn Shell records a hefty rise in its profits. Business as usual can only lead to disaster. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
‘We stared into an abyss’: the heroes battling to tame France’s ‘megafire’
Exhausted firefighters wage ‘war of attrition’ against blaze that forced 200,000 people from their homes
theguardian.com
Osprey Sky carries a quiet motion across open blue. Wings move with gentle rhythm through calm air. Water rests beneath the slow and steady passage. Soft strength travels forward in quiet devotion. #Osprey #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #birdphotography
In June 1966, scientist James Lovelock warned Shell in a confidential memo of “the almost certain fact that the climate is worsening and the probability that the combustion of fuel is responsible.” Shell would later become "a founding member of the denialist Global Climate Coalition." 😑
The Lovelock Papers: Shell’s Hidden Climate Knowledge Under Scrutiny as Court Battle Looms
“What seems to be important,” wrote the visionary British scientist, James Lovelock, in June 1966, is “the almost certain fact that the climate is worsening and the probability that the combustion of ...
desmog.com
Khaled al-Assad, the Syrian archaeologist who gave his life to protect the ancient city of Palmyra from destruction by ISIS militants. Under torture and pain of death, he refused to reveal the location of priceless artifacts he’d hidden away. Original post
Happy Birthday Emily Bronte, born #onthisday 30th July 1818, in Thornton, West Yorkshire, England #writers and Kate Bush (1958) composer of the song inspired by the novel.
